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Six people have been arrested, and another two are under investigation for trafficking hashish and marihuana
Jan 25, 2018 - 1:38 PM
The Guardia Civil dismantled in Murcia a gang selling drugs in the UK
Six people have been arrested, and another two are under investigation for trafficking hashish and marihuana
Jan 25, 2018 - 1:38 PM
The Guardia Civil of the Murcia Region, in collaboration with HM Revenue & Customs, has dismantled a gang of drug traffickers based in Alicante and Murcia for trafficking narcotics to the UK.
Six people are being held in custody of Spanish, Swedish and British nationalities on the charges for the crimes of drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal organisation. Another two are under investigation on the same charges.
The agents confiscated 190 kilos of marihuana acorns, three and a half kilos of hashish resin, two vehicles, 13,000 €, smartphones and abundant documentation.
The operation, baptised ‘Artes’ started thanks to the interchange of information between the Guardia Civil and the British Customs Service, which revealed a group of people, based in Alicante and Murcia, supposedly trafficking drugs between Spain and the UK.
The Guardia Civil started to keep watch on two industrial warehouses in the Murcia Region, where supposedly existed a transfer of narcotic substances between lorries. The Armed Institute detected a car with the driver acting suspiciously near a warehouse in the Industrial Estate at Alcantarilla.
A lorry was intercepted on the A-7 motorway while driving pass Lorca, found with a total of 190 kilos of vacuum packed marihuana acorns which were confiscated. The driver was a Spanish man aged 52 and resident of Caniles (Granada), and the Swedish citizen, supposedly related to the hidden market.
In Totana
During the investigation, the detectives found last November, a van, intercepted in Totana. Hidden inside were three and a half kilos of hashish resin, the driver was British and taken into custody for the presumed crime of drug trafficking.
The last phase of the operation, recently developed, allowed for the identification of several homes related to the criminal gang in Orihuela, Murcia and Puerto Lumbreras. The Guardia Civil took three people into custody, two Spaniards and one Irish as supposed members of the criminal gang.
Searching these three homes uncovered in one in Murcia a greenhouse of flowering wild cannabis plants.
The two women who remain under investigation are from Paraguay and Britain and faces charges of collaborating with a criminal organisation.
Sources at the Guardia Civil underline the specialist nature of the criminal gang in trafficking drugs between Spain and the UK with operations based at Orihuela Costa and Murcia.
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Six people are being held in custody of Spanish, Swedish and British nationalities on the charges for the crimes of drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal organisation. Another two are under investigation on the same charges.
The agents confiscated 190 kilos of marihuana acorns, three and a half kilos of hashish resin, two vehicles, 13,000 €, smartphones and abundant documentation.
The operation, baptised ‘Artes’ started thanks to the interchange of information between the Guardia Civil and the British Customs Service, which revealed a group of people, based in Alicante and Murcia, supposedly trafficking drugs between Spain and the UK.
The Guardia Civil started to keep watch on two industrial warehouses in the Murcia Region, where supposedly existed a transfer of narcotic substances between lorries. The Armed Institute detected a car with the driver acting suspiciously near a warehouse in the Industrial Estate at Alcantarilla.
A lorry was intercepted on the A-7 motorway while driving pass Lorca, found with a total of 190 kilos of vacuum packed marihuana acorns which were confiscated. The driver was a Spanish man aged 52 and resident of Caniles (Granada), and the Swedish citizen, supposedly related to the hidden market.
In Totana
During the investigation, the detectives found last November, a van, intercepted in Totana. Hidden inside were three and a half kilos of hashish resin, the driver was British and taken into custody for the presumed crime of drug trafficking.
The last phase of the operation, recently developed, allowed for the identification of several homes related to the criminal gang in Orihuela, Murcia and Puerto Lumbreras. The Guardia Civil took three people into custody, two Spaniards and one Irish as supposed members of the criminal gang.
Searching these three homes uncovered in one in Murcia a greenhouse of flowering wild cannabis plants.
The two women who remain under investigation are from Paraguay and Britain and faces charges of collaborating with a criminal organisation.
Sources at the Guardia Civil underline the specialist nature of the criminal gang in trafficking drugs between Spain and the UK with operations based at Orihuela Costa and Murcia.
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