The Mossos d'Esquadra located last Monday a marijuana plantation in an apartment on Roure street, in the Font de la Pólvora neighborhood of Girona. The indoor plantation had about 200 plants and occupied almost the entire dwelling. The operation ended without arrests.
The installation also had an irregular electrical connection. The connection had been made through a water pipe, with fraudulent consumption equivalent to the annual expenditure of 54 homes. After the intervention, the electricity supply to the block where the flat was located was cut off.
A neighborhood with a strong volume of electrical fraud
The detection of this plantation once again places the focus on the electricity grid of Font de la Pólvora. Endesa estimates at 41% of the 615 supply points in the neighborhood that did not have a meter and maintains that 71% of the electricity consumed was fraudulent. The company also points out that six times more energy was consumed in the area than that registered by the meters.
That volume of electrical losses, always according to the data provided by the company, grew by 24% between 2024 and 2025. The impact of irregular connections and overloads has been dragging on for months in this sector of the city.
Recent Background on the Network
In July of last year, a fire in a transformation center due to overload left 246 residents without supply. After that episode, Endesa invested 200,000 euros in the replacement of the affected equipment.
More recently, on March 22, a fire in a meter on l'Avellaner street affected seven people. In this context, since April 7, a shower service has been activated in the Vila-roja pavilion.
Municipal request to reinforce the action
"We have asked the Mossos d'Esquadra to act if they detect, as at other times, that the overloads and cuts are caused by criminal activities" - Sergi Font, deputy mayor and councilor for Resource Management and Citizen Attention
The location of this plantation on Roure street thus adds to a scenario of high pressure on the network in Font de la Pólvora, where irregular connections and incidents associated with the supply continue under monitoring.