50 kilos of cocaine seized in Algeciras

June 28, 2011

Customs officers have arrested two men this morning who were unloading 50 kilos of cocaine from a pleasure craft in the Saladillo marina in Algeciras. The incident was deemed unusual and a change in modus operandi because it is normally hashish which is brought in aboard pleasure boats, cocaine normally being hidden in containers and smuggled in through the main …

Another big drugs bust in Algeciras

January 24, 2011

Ten people have been arrested, including two Catalan businessmen, and 60 kilos of cocaine seized in Algeciras in an operation codenamed ‘Iroco’.

Two pilots arrested at El Prat

January 6, 2011

Guardia Civil officers have arrested the two pilots of an Argentinian medical transport plane at El Prat airport in Barcelona after 900 kilos of cocaine was found on board.

35 detained in police raids in Sevilla

December 18, 2010

A total of 35 people, mostly members of the Cucu clan, have been arrested in the Las Vegas and Los Verdes areas of the Sevilla district known as ‘Tres Mil Viviendas’.

Police seize over one ton of cocaine

June 29, 2010

National Police officers have arrested 15 people in Barcelona and confiscated over one ton of cocaine in Cataluña and Andalucía in an operation which began last August.

Cocaine and bananas

April 17, 2010

Police have seized 1,425 kilos of cocaine hidden inside boxes of bananas from Ecuador, one pallet being found in Sevilla and one in Alicante.

Cocaine haul in Sevilla

March 9, 2010

Nine people have been arrested in Sevilla in connection with international drugs smuggling. Police seized 174.5 kilos of cocaine, hidden amongst pallets of goods from Paraguay, during a raid on a warehouse in Alcalá de Guadaíra.