It’s a very active route. The gangs, who move the cannabis from the south of Spain to sell it later in Vigo and its surroundings, do not hesitate to travel. more than 800 kilometers He embarks on a risky journey to take the medicine to its destination. The last police operation against such networks took place this August. A drug trafficker was arrested last week after a lengthy investigation He was traveling from Andalusia with a 60-pound stash hidden in the trunk of a luxury vehicle.. they arrested him in PorrinoAfter being captured, as he completes the long route that will take him to Vigo, a destination he has not been able to reach since, judge ordered his admission to temporary prison. This case is no exception and exemplifies how this most frequent journey is made. via Portugalis a lucrative business for organizations that make a living from drug trafficking. Because in recent years, police crackdowns against tribes in and around the city of Olívica, supplied in the south of the peninsula since 2015, have resulted in twenty arrests and the seizure of close to 600 kilograms of cannabis.
In this last operation, it was revealed that one of these transfers will be carried out during the investigations carried out at the Vigo police station months ago. The information they had was good because on Monday, August 22, agents intercepted the vehicle from Andalusia in Porriño. When opening the trunk, they could already see how they looked from one side at first glance. three bags of poppies. A later more detailed search of the police offices allowed discovery on the floor of the trunk and after unlocking a hydraulic system, 611 tablets of the same drug weighing 60 kilograms.
The investigation is still open and new detainees have not been ruled out after a Porriño Education Court ordered the preventive detention of the car driver. The truth is that in recent years This road between the south and north of Spain has not stopped bringing arrests. Since 2015, there have been at least 20 arrests allowing more than half a ton of marijuana to be removed from circulation. One of the most striking operations dates back to 2017, when a spectacular chase along the AP-9 highway near Vigo ended with a vandalized National Police vehicle. In short, a serious blow to a clan that transports drugs from Andalusia by car through Portuguese roads to get rid of the Spanish authorities, selling them in Vigo and O Morrazo.
Another major operation, baptized as Becris between 2017 and 2018, completed seven arrests and seized 100 kilos of marijuana. The coup was against a gang based in Redondela, which – thanks to a powerful network of cars and vans with secret compartments – was capable of bringing 400 kilos of this drug each month from the south of the peninsula.
Even during locking
This criminal activity has not stopped even during the coronavirus lockdown. In March 2021, another network fell between the Strait of Gibraltar and Vigo, carrying 100 kilos of drugs each month. and this circumvented the surrounding closures and curfew with forged documents simulating business trips. And a year ago, Operation Guernica made it possible to seize another cache stored in two cars in Tui, after performing the Portuguese route to transport the drugs to Galicia.