Eight arrested in Estepona drugs haul

Eight arrested in Estepona drugs haul
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By h.b. - Jun 10, 2010 - 9:47 AM
The traffickers used a new system to bring the drugs across the Strait

Photo - Ministry of the Interior

National Police and tax officials have broken up a drug trafficking network in Estepona which used the unusual method of dragging the drugs in bails to the shore underwater.

The drugs, which came from Morocco, were sunk and anchored under the water at a depth of some 20 metres at pre-arranged coordinates.
Then the Spanish side of the organisation would go to the site which had been marked with a buoy and then use a diver to bring the drugs to the surface.

Jet skis were then used to bring the drugs to shore.

Police say that eight people have been arrested and 1,158 kilos of hashish have been recovered, 700 kilos of which was still anchored out to sea close to the Saladillo beach in Estepona.

Eight people have been arrested, but there is no detail as yet on their nationalities.

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