Tag: hashish
Benidorm tower blocks in crime hotspot get raided in drugs bust on Spain’s Costa Blanca
14 people of different nationalities have been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Benidorm for drug-dealing.
Officers raided the Playmon residential blocks on Avenida Portugal,...
Police chase drug smugglers around beach after unloading five ton hashish stash in Spain’s Murcia
FIVE tons of hashish was intercepted by the Guardia Civil after officers stumbled upon a boat unloading the consignment at a Murcia cove.
Four traffickers...
Boy in Spain’s Alicante turns in own parents after they order him to sell drugs at school
A BOY aged 16 who was forced by his parents to sell drugs at his school tipped the police off.
Now his mother and father...
Drug traffickers convert ‘squatted’ homes into cryptocurrency and marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca
FIVE members of a Costa Blanca drugs gang have been jailed in a major strike by the Guardia Civil.
Six people were bailed and two...
Dogs in Spain’s Marbella intoxicated by hashish washed up on beaches by recent storm
THERE have been recent reports of dogs intoxicated by hashish that have washed up on the beaches of Marbella due to the passage of...
Dog bites police officers trying to arrest drug-trafficking gang leader on Spain’s Costa Blanca
SIX members of a drug trafficking gang behind an Alicante marijuana and hashish retail operation have been arrested by the Policia Nacional.
The gang leader's...
Police intercept drug-dealers trying to flee Benidorm’s ‘English Zone’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca
FOUR drug dealers have been arrested after trying to speed away from a police patrol car in the 'English Zone' of Benidorm.
Policia Nacional officers...
Drugs lord arrested at luxury Costa Blanca home in Spain for exporting narcotics via lorries across Europe
A Polish drugs lord who used lorries from Spain to transport drugs to Scandinavia and Eastern Europe has been arrested by the Guardia Civil.
Officers...
Brits in hot water over clandestine Costa Blanca drugs den in expat area of Spain
THREE British people are being investigated over an illegal marijuana smokehouse and drug sales point on the southern Costa Blanca.
Orihuela Policia Local raided an...
Drug dealers abandon rooster in burning car on Spain’s Costa Blanca
EMERGENCY services discovered a rooster in a crashed and burning car abandoned by drug dealers in the Postiguet beach area of Alicante.
The two men...
Drug smugglers in Spain’s Andalucia lie about orca attack to cover up hashish shipment from Morocco
The Policia Nacional have arrested hashish smugglers who sailed from Morocco and lied about their boat being attacked by orca whales.
Two people have been...
Six years for man rescued after sinking rented boat laden with drugs bound for Torrevieja on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ALICANTE Courts have sentenced a man to six years to six years in prison after his failed attempt at importing nearly two tonnes of...
Police chase luxury yacht stuffed with drugs off Spain’s Costa Blanca
A luxury yacht crammed with 810 kilos of hashish has been intercepted off the Costa Blanca after a half-hour police pursuit.
A Guardia Civil maritime...
Smuggler gets €8 million fine after yacht carrying drugs sank off the Costa Blanca in Spain
FOUR people have been jailed and given massive fines after a plan to sail into Torrevieja with 2.4 tons of hashish went badly wrong.
The...
High speed boat chase results in massive offshore drugs bust on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN illegal cargo of 1,300 kilos of hashish has been seized by the Guardia Civil after a high speed boat chase in Costa Blanca...
Drug smugglers caught loading four tonnes of hashish from Mar Menor fishing boat onto a lorry in Spain
CUSTOMS officers pounced in San Pedro del Pinatar as a fishing boat cargo of 4.3 tonnes of hashish was being unloaded.
A refrigerated lorry pulled...
Tiny inflatable boat crammed with tons of drugs nearly sinks in Murcia waters of Spain
AN inflatable boat could barely stay afloat off the Murcia coast as it struggled to carry its clandestine cargo of over two tons of...
Criminal gang caught red-handed smuggling 15 tonnes of drugs into Spain on boat named ‘SEEFUCHS’
EIGHT members of an organised criminal gang were arrested after their boat, SEEFUCHS, was boarded 100 miles off the Spanish coast.
Five drug smugglers were...
Corruption: Police officers in southern Spain busted over pocketing €7,500 each to ignore drug shipments from Morocco
THREE police officers have been arrested and accused of charging smugglers thousands of euros to turn a blind eye to a 750kg shipment of...
Big drugs stash washes ashore on popular Costa Blanca day trip island in Spain
A Tabarca Island resident had an unusual find on Saturday(June 19) after spotting a large package on the shore close to the lighthouse on...
Stuffed: Gang of four arrested in Spain for smuggling drugs in cushions
FOUR Spaniards have been arrested on suspicion of organising a criminal network after police intercepted 181kg of hashish which was being sent from Malaga...
Yacht was camouflaged as a fishing boat to smuggle tons of drugs into a Costa Blanca port in Spain
TWO-and-a-half tons of hashish was found on a yacht moored at Santa Pola, leading to the detention of a Murcia and Costa Blanca-based drugs...
BIG HASH STASH of under 4,000 kilos on a speedy ‘narcoboat’ is intercepted at a Costa Blanca beach in...
PLANS to land almost 4,000 kilos of hashish by boat on the Costa Blanca came unstuck this morning(May 19) when the craft was intercepted...
Two women arrested in Spain’s Malaga after they were caught hiding one kilogram of hashish in their bras
TWO women have been arrested in Malaga after they were caught hiding one kilogram of hashish in their bras.
SNIFFED OUT: Drug gang of eight people who hid weed and hash in cases of garlic arrested on Spain’s...
POLICE have sniffed out a drugs smuggling gang who hid cannabis in shipments of garlic.
Officers arrested eight people, based in Cordoba and Benalmadena and...
Drugs smugglers on Spain’s Costa del Sol set up tomato canning plant to get round coronavirus lockdown rules
A GANG of drugs smugglers left stumped by the coronavirus transport ban decided to start a tomato canning business so they could continue their...
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