Two Civil Guard operations in Almería have broken up two drugs gangs, one which smuggled large amounts of cannabis into Spain from North Africa, and another which specialised in stealing consignments of drugs which had been brought into the country by other gangs.
It’s understood from EFE that one of the members of the second group dressed in a Civil Guard uniform during the armed assaults.
The investigation began after the owner of a farm in Vícar was reported missing at the end of February, and his disappearance was found to be linked to the theft of a consignment of cannabis which had been hidden on the farm. The missing man was finally located two weeks later.
10 people have been arrested and one and a half tons of cannabis have been recovered.
On the Costa Tropical, another ton of cannabis has been recovered from the coast off Motril. The first of the 27 packages were discovered by a man who was fishing from the shore in Torrenueva on Tuesday, and there were another three finds along the coast over the day.
The Civil Guard said the packages were thrown overboard from a boat which had sped out to sea to escape a patrol boat earlier on Tuesday.
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