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Drugs in balloons in Ceuta
By h.b. - Jul 24, 2008 - 8:08 AM

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A Spanish couple were arrested as they were boarding the Algeciras ferry with the inflated balloons.

National police have arrested four people who are accused of trafficking in cocaine in the Campo de Gibraltar area. The four are to face charges of committing a crime against public health, and some 3.2 kilos of the drug was recovered in the operation. The four acted in particular during the local fiestas in municipalities in the region.

In a separate incident the Civil Guard has arrested a Spanish married couple at the port in Ceuta as they were boarding a ferry for Algeciras. The couple was carrying 25 inflated balloons which they said were for a children’s party, but inside which the police found more than six kilos of hashish.

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