Spain’s National Police seized more than 15.3 tonnes of hashish from a truck that had arrived at the port of Almería from Nador, Morocco, working with Morocco’s Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) and French agencies.[1][2] Officers found the drug hidden among boards of watermelon and inside fake sweet potatoes made of plastic, in an attempt to get the load through inspections.[1][2]
The raid, dubbed Operation San Pedro, was carried out on 19 June 2025 and led to eight arrests in Huércal de Almería and Torremolinos, of people suspected of belonging to an international large-scale hashish trafficking network.[1] Five of those held, including the driver and the men guarding the cargo, were remanded in custody on drug trafficking and organised crime charges.[2] Officers had tracked the truck to a warehouse in an Almería industrial zone after France’s anti-narcotics office OFAST tipped them off in early June about a Spanish-Moroccan network moving large loads into Europe.[2]
The operation’s chief, Antonio Jesús Martínez Duarte, said the swoop dismantled the network’s logistics structure and stopped the hashish being split onto other trucks, which were thought to be bound for France, the supposed final destination.[1]
