Two tons of cannabis recovered in the Gulf of Cádiz

Eight people were arrested after a Customs aircraft spotted the cargo being loaded from a mother boat onto four smaller vessels

Officers from the Customs Authority have recovered two tons of cannabis resin after four small boats were captured in the Gulf of Cádiz on Tuesday afternoon after unloading their cargo of drugs from a mother ship out at sea, some 10 kilometres from shore.

The transfer was spotted by a Customs aircraft which was on surveillance in the area, and the alert went out to capture the team of drug smugglers. Eight people were taken into custody.

La Voz de Cádiz notes that the boats were not the semi rigid fast boats which are typically used by drug smugglers, but were fibre glass boats, some 6 metres long, of the type which is used for recreational fishing.