Tag: Drugs Spain
In joint operation between Spain and UK, authorities bust cocaine smugglers using recreational boats
SPAIN’S Civil Guard has carried out a joint operation with UK authorities to bust a drug-trafficking gang that was using recreational boats to smuggle...
Cocaine cowboys: Three day search of animal cargo ship fails to find drugs
A THREE-DAY search by the Spanish authorities of a ship carrying 16,000 cows was called off after officers failed to find the five tonnes...
Wanted by Spain’s Interior Ministry: Companies to help incinerate the police’s record drug hauls
SPAIN is one of the main hubs in Europe for the import of cocaine and hashish, meaning that the country’s authorities are constantly making...
Police in Spain find masses of marijuana hidden inside bags of lettuce on lorry
Police have taken down a major criminal organisation in Spain, and one part of the operation left officers shocked.
Police have seized 296 kilograms of...
WATCH: Police smash huge smuggling ring that sent weed to Germany on trucks and camper vans
EUROPOL agents have arrested 44 and seized over €4 million in cash after the stakeout of a powerful weed and hash Costa del Sol...
‘Proud’ Gibraltar police detective gets major global award for law enforcement excellence
A GLOBAL police association has awarded a Gibraltar inspector as one of 40 officers across the world that stood out for ‘excellence’ in the...
INVESTIGATION: How a ‘stoner tax’ is lining the coffers of local town halls in Spain and why a new...
A COURT ruling in Spain’s Murcia region has highlighted how local authorities are using a ‘stoner tax’ to fill their coffers by fining dope...
Suspected cocaine smuggling ring smashed in Gibraltar Campo drug bust
A DOZEN suspected international cocaine traffickers are under arrest after a large police operation spanning various Andalusian cities.
WATCH: Colombian Cocaine Caravans caught in Canary Islands, cartel arrested
AN INTERNATIONAL gang of drug traffickers were busted in a large-scale dawn raid in the Canary Islands.
Holiday caravans were used to transport cocaine around...
British and Thai expat arrested for running drugs factory from their home in Spain’s Malaga
Officers seized cannabis plants, packaged marijuana and €2500
Two arrested and one man on the run after police in Spain discover world’s first transatlantic drugs submarine
The boat was stopped on Sunday night in Galicia following its 4,778 mile journey from Columbia
Shocked beach-goers watch as drug boat carrying migrants runs ashore on Spain’s Costa del Sol
Authorities have seized the boat.
British drug lord arrested on yacht off Spain’s coast as 3,100kg of hash seized
Three polish men were also arrested.
Cocaine is Spain and Britain’s drug of choice new study finds – but which Spanish city is the European...
The drug habits of 60 million people were analysed between 2011 and 2017.
Four arrested and over €2,000 seized during cannabis club crackdown in Spain’s Marbella
440 grams of marijuana, 63 joints, a dozen containers of THC and €2,212 were seized during the raid.
Penal Colada! Family busted after drug smuggling operation using pineapples
ELEVEN members of the same family have been arrested after police discovered they had been smuggling drugs to Europe inside pineapples.
A number of vessels...
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