They seized 560 kilos of marijuana in a container of used clothes sent from the Canary Islands to Alicante

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He used the drug network port of Alicante A shipment of 560 kilos of camouflaged marijuana in a container containing about ten tons of used clothing will be made in December, but was detected by the shipment. Civil Guard and Customs Surveillance in the port Gran Canarian palms and a surveillance operation was launched that took the inspectors from the port of Alicante to an industrial area in the town of Murcian. ceuti. There, 12 people aged between 18 and 52, including the main person responsible for the shipment, were arrested during the receipt of the drugs on 4 December. was in Las Palmas and Alicante to ship and receive the container, As the Civil Guard reported yesterday.

The ship, christened “Operation Inertia”, was launched by the Tax Office’s Civil Guard and Customs Surveillance after they identified a suspicious 40-foot container as the source of departure. light harbor From Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the port of destination was Alicante, which had to follow a road route to a polygon in the town of Ceutí in Murcia.

Risk analysis

The cache was detected through surveillance, monitoring and extensive risk analysis by security components. Financial Analysis and Investigation Unit (UDAIF) From the Civil Guard of the Port of La Luz in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

About 560 kg of cannabis shipments were to be shipped on a ship. 40 foot container He declared that he had. 10 tons of used clothes It is connected to the port of Alicante.

One of those arrested from the drug warehouse entering the port of Alicante.

The organization is also a freight company To get the container to its final destination on a Ceuti ship, the Civil Guard and Customs Surveillance inspectors made a prudent call. device About what was investigated from the moment the container containing the drugs arrived at the port of Alicante.

When the container arrived at the port of Alicante, it was picked up by the same person who had sent it from the Canary port.

counter surveillance

researchers Armed Institute and Customs Surveillance has determined how many counter surveillance measures are applied at the destination of the drug by the recipients of the consignment.

The suspects had full control of the industrial site where the attack was directed. cargo and after a frustrated attempt to pick up the container on December 2, the shipping company was finally able to deliver it on a ship three days later. Industrial area of ​​Los Torraos de Ceuti.

Bags with drugs. DGGC

Despite the security measures, the alleged drug traffickers could not identify the Civil Guard investigators awaiting transfer to the courthouse. drug receptors They were checking the bags carrying the drug to carry out a rapid police deployment that allowed 12 people to be arrested in connection with this delivery of the container containing more than half a ton of marijuana.

home records

next to you ship inspection While 560 kilos of cannabis were seized, a house search was also carried out. A bar in Malaga After signs and evidence ascertained by the origin of the persons involved and the destination of the drug.

Investigators found foreign license plates and registration documents for a navigator’s shipment, among other containers from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. nautical gps. Therefore, it is suspected that the organization may have sent other stashes in the past, disguised as legitimate commercial goods.

This anti-drug operation The Organic Division of the Las Palmas Judicial Police was carried out by the Las Palmas Financial Company UDAIF and the Las Palmas and Alicante Customs Surveillance with the support of different units of the Murcia, Alicante and Alicante Civil Guard Commands. Malaga.

All of the detainees spent last December 7 at the disposal of the court on duty. Molina de Segura, It was decided to arrest the main person responsible for sending the seized drugs.

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