Two arrested in Astorga as police shut a drug storehouse; hashish and marijuana seized
Spain's National Police detained two men in Astorga after a road check and a court-authorised house search, and located a flat used as a drug storehouse. Officers seized about 350 grams of drugs in all, including hashish and marijuana alongside cocaine.
Spain’s National Police detained two men in Astorga, in León province, on
suspicion of a crime against public health, after an investigation into
small-scale drug dealing in the town.[1][2][3][4][5][6]Investigators from the local judicial
police unit linked the two men and documented meetings and journeys police
suspected were tied to the drug trade.[1][5]According to the investigation, the
pair travelled outside the province to buy the drugs they then sold locally.[1][5][7]
Officers stopped the men at a police check and found about 200 grams of what
appeared to be hashish and 1.3 grams of a white powder believed to be cocaine.[1][2][3][4][5][7][6]The two were arrested there and taken to police premises for questioning.[1][2]A judge then authorised a search of the flat used by one of them in
Astorga.[1][3][5]The search found another 150 grams of drugs in all, among them
hashish, marijuana and cocaine, and officers also took cash, tools for preparing
and distributing the drugs and handwritten notes on suspected sales.[1][3][4][5][7][6]
Police said the operation seized close to 350 grams of various drugs in total
and located a home they believe was used as a storehouse and distribution point
in Astorga.[1][3][5][6]The León provincial government office, which released the
account, gave the same sequence: the check, the court-authorised house search
and the roughly 350 grams seized.[8]Europa Press reported that the search
turned up hashish, marijuana and cocaine in the home of one of the detainees,
with cash, tools and handwritten notes on possible sales also seized.[8]Another local outlet described the two as suspected small-scale drug traffickers
whose shared activity had been documented through journeys outside the province.[9][2]
Investigators documented meetings and journeys between the two men, and police said they travelled outside León province to buy the drugs they later distributed locally.[3]
Photos and video
Police handout photo of the drugs and other items seized at the Astorga flat; the caption places the seizure at the home of one of the detainees. Photo: Subdelegación del Gobierno en LeónPhoto details
Diario de Leóndiariodeleon.esESDos detenidos y cerca de 350 gramos de droga intervenidos en una operación contra el tráfico de estupefacientes en Astorga
Noticias Bierzonoticiasbierzo.esESDetenidas dos personas e interviene cerca de 350 gramos de droga en una operación contra el tráfico de estupefacientes en Astorga
iLeónileon.eldiario.esESDos detenidos y un punto de distribución de droga desmantelado por la Policía Nacional en Astorga
Europa Presseuropapress.esESDetenidas dos personas y cerca de 350 gramos de droga intervenidos en Astorga (León)
The published accounts do not separate the cannabis from the cocaine inside the roughly 350 grams seized in all, so the cannabis weight cannot be split out; the 350 grams is the combined figure.
No precise weights for the hashish and marijuana found in the flat are given, and no laboratory confirmation of the substances was reported.
Police give no date for the check, arrests or house search; 9 November 2026 is the publication date of the reports and is used as the incident date.
No court decision or release was reported; the men were taken to police premises for questioning, and the case remained at the investigation stage in the published accounts.
No street value for the drugs was given.
The national police statement was reproduced with nearly identical wording by the outlets cited, so they are not independent confirmations.
The European Press text on this page repeats the agency wording already cited and gives no separate hashish and marijuana weights, so the report's combined 350-gram figure and its cannabis split stay open.
This account also gives no separate hashish and marijuana weights, so the cannabis share of the roughly 350 grams remains unknown.
Diario de León, published through the Ical agency, repeats the government office and Europa Press wording almost verbatim and gives no separate hashish and marijuana weights, so the cannabis share of the roughly 350 grams remains unknown.
No district or address is given for the police check or the searched flat in Astorga, so the town-centre coordinates remain the most precise place recorded.
La Nueva Crónica gives the same combined figures as the statement it repeats and still no separate hashish and marijuana weights, so the cannabis share of the roughly 350 grams remains unknown.
The page states the seized hashish, marijuana and cocaine together as about 150 grams found in the flat, without a breakdown, so no cannabis weight can be split from this account.
This account likewise gives no separate weights for the hashish and marijuana inside the roughly 150 grams found in the flat, so the cannabis share of the combined total remains unknown.
The police handout photo carried by iLeón shows the seized substances and tools but its credit is not printed on the page.
The article gives no separate weights for the hashish and marijuana inside the roughly 350 grams, which mixes cannabis with cocaine, so no cannabis-only weight can be recorded.
No separate date is given for the check, arrests or house search; 9 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
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Guardia Civil officers arrested 12 people at the Port of Ceuta on 10 November 2026 after sniffer dogs detected they had ingested hashish pellets before attempting to board a ferry to Algeciras. All 12 suspects were taken to the Hospital Universitario de Ceuta, where X-ray scans confirmed the presence of ingested drugs in their bodies.
National Police detained two people in Linares, Jaen, dismantling two marijuana plantations and seizing 575 plants. The action was Operation Jaroco, with two home searches led by the local drugs group.
The Guardia Civil arrested a 24-year-old man in the Alfoz de Burgos district and took him before the courts on suspicion of growing cannabis and of mutilating eight fighting-breed cocks. Officers found six plants more than two metres tall, weighing 22 kilograms green, in the greenhouses of a fenced rural plot.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 6Cannabis 22 kg
