Police dog Dago finds 2,500 kg of hashish hidden in decorative stone
The Guardia Civil, assisted by the detection dog Dago, found 2,500 kilos of hashish hidden inside a lorry trailer's cargo of decorative stone items at the port of Algeciras. The stone ornaments each held five kilos of the drug.
The Guardia Civil searched a trailer of a lorry that had arrived at the port of
Algeciras from Morocco, with the assistance of the police dog Dago, and found
2,500 kilos of hashish hidden inside its cargo of decorative stone items
supposedly destined for local gardens and terraces.[1]Officers smashed open the
stone ornaments identified by the dog, each of which held five kilos of hashish.[1]
Dago, a German Shepherd based with the Guardia Civil in Algeciras, had detected
13,126 kilos of hashish so far that year.[1]His Algeciras partner, another
German Shepherd called Reno, had sniffed out 328 kilos of hashish hidden on a yacht
in August.[1]
Case data
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Guardia Civil officers in Segovia dismantled a clandestine marijuana plantation hidden in a greenhouse near El Espinar after neighbours reported a strong smell of cannabis. Two local residents were placed under investigation for alleged drug-trafficking cultivation, and officers seized 8.05 kg of plant material.
The Guardia Civil investigated a man in Aguilar de la Frontera, Córdoba, after a neighbour reported being threatened with a short firearm; he handed over an air pistol. Officers then found eight cannabis plants, about 1.60 metres tall, grown inside his home, with buds weighing 920 grams, and put the file before a court.
Guardia Civil officers intercepted a parcel holding 15.9 kilos of hashish resin at a transport company near Asturias airport, then arrested the 37-year-old Seville man who flew in to collect it in a simulated delivery. A judge sent him to prison on 6 November 2026.
Mossos d'Esquadra found a fully equipped forest camp in Figuerola del Camp holding more than 1,000 kilos of marijuana buds ready for sale. No arrests were reported and the investigation to identify those behind the site remains open.
