Alleged president The Colombian drug trafficking organization was busted in an industrial warehouse in Cehegín (Murcia), Levante-EMV of the Prensa Ibérica group announced this Thursday.it was He was caught on his way to the scene himself.tired of having men We couldn’t save the drugs inside the huge marble blocks It was transported by sea from South America.
This is evident from the authorized investigations carried out by the organized crime and drugs squad (EDOA) of the Palma Civil Guard, with the support of a specialist group from the central operating unit (UCO). gain 1,300 kilos cocaine -100 more than originally calculatedbefore the final weighing and arrested eight people, seven men and one woman.
A group from Valencia will be under the spotlight from 2022
The group had been under investigation since late 2022, when Palma’s anti-narcotics agents found a group of Colombians based in Valencia to import. large shipments of cocaine from their country.
The first seizure was made from this organization In the port of Palma at the beginning of Augustjust two days after the agents, already They were tracking both the alleged ringleader and his two lieutenants.settled Valencia and in a municipality Camp de TuriaThey saw one of the boss’s trusted men give a bag full of drugs to a man.
first 10 kilos
From there, they just had to follow him and see how he gets on the ferry from the port of Valencia to Palma with his heavy vehicle loaded with fruit and his suspicious bag. When they arrived in the capital of Majorca they just Passing the dog trained on drug detection. The animals marked the bag, the guards opened it and inside was 10 kilos of cocaine.. Truck driver, Valencian and 54 years old, He was arrested immediately.
Confident that they are ready for a job from then on drug trafficking They maintained surveillance on the allegedly much larger group. drug traffickersThis led researchers to discover what they had. An industrial warehouse in Cehegín, a chalet nearby and rented a minibus at the last minute supposedly intended transporting medications to their destination the end, which wasn’t neither Valencia nor, of course, Murcia.
Did you enter from Valencia Port?
All of this prompted warnings from drug enforcement agents. final stage of the operation. To do this, they further intensified surveillance on the suspects, which allowed them to know: The drugs were already in Cehegin’s warehouse -Everything shows that entered via Port of Valencia, however, researchers have not yet been able to confirm this data.
However, there was a development that surprised the civil guards. The release of the drug was postponed day by day Following complications accumulating for the alleged narcos. Narcotics for example Levante-EMV exclusively announced this Thursday: to arrive Hidden inside cylinders hidden inside three large marble blocks, so to get it back they had to see the stoneAlthough he was careful enough not to reach cocaine and I spray it all over the ship.
A strange subtraction
The first machine selected turned out to be brokenwith this Constitution and Immaculate Conception bridge and holidaysforced them to do this postpone the maneuver extraction. And when they got it back the problems remained, both in the flow of the water and the flow of the water. constantly cool the stone and the saw itselflike cutting machines They finally burned out.
This being the case, what happened when we saw that the ‘operators’ could not fully extract the drugs? slows down all work and increases risk led to the discovery allegedly responsible for maximum from organization to Travel personally from Valencia to Cehegín to put things in order.
Everyone to prison
Her arrival coincided those responsible for removing They had managed to extract the cocaine from the first block.Just what The Civil Guard was waiting to enter and arrest themSo despite everything, agents They completed the operation by capturing the heavyweight of the organizationsomething absolutely unusual under the circumstances, because Bosses never risk being directly involved in drug processing tasks. to avoid risks.
One of those detained on the ship Cehegín (Murcia) with 1,300 kilos of cocaine is escorted by the Civil Guard in the court of Caravaca de la Cruz. ENRIQUE SOLER
Of the eight people initially detained, only Seven people were brought to justice this Thursday: Six -those on the ship-, Caravaca de la Cruz Investigative Judge 3Jurisdiction to which Cehegín belongs protection dutiesand one – lieutenant – before Judge of Valencia Instruction 21also on duty. seven people He was sent to prison yesterday by court decision.. The eighth person arrested is The alleged ringleader’s wife was released After appearing before the Civil Guard.
7.6 tons in two months
With this new post There are already 7.6 tonnes of this cocaine Security forces bought them on the black market after entering the port of Valencia. It became the third country where the most cocaine was seized in all of Europe, after Antwerp and Rotterdam. port areas with He had beaten the Valencian in previous years.
By then, and for nearly twenty years, The Port of Valencia was the main gateway to Europe for cocaine shipped by sea from South America. Or at least preserved more seizures.