4,723 kg of hashish seized from boats off the Canary Islands
Spain's Civil Guard seized 4,723 kg of hashish from two unlit inflatable boats intercepted between Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura on 2 November 2024 on Moroccan intelligence, arresting the four crew members.
🇪🇸 Waters between Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, Canary Islands · Spain
Spain’s Civil Guard seized4,723 kg of hashish from two inflatable boats
intercepted between the islands of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura on 2
November 2024, acting on intelligence from Morocco’s Directorate of
Territorial Surveillance.[1][2]A maritime surveillance system located the
boats sailing without lights about 80 km off the coast, carrying 131 bales
of hashish with two people aboard each boat.[1][2]
The four crew members were arrested and taken with the drugs to Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, where a court ordered all four held in custody on 4 November.[1]Morocco’s DGST provided the intelligence behind the interception, in
what the reports describe as close police cooperation between the two
countries.[1][2]The operation followed an expected November attempt to land
Moroccan shipments on Gran Canaria’s coast.[1]
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NewsLooks dates the operation to 12 November; the local account dates the interception to 2 November with court custody on 4 November, which this report follows.
Whether the four arrested crew members were convicted was not in these reports.
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