The Guardia Civil detained a 37-year-old man who lives in Seville for alleged drug trafficking after seizing 15.9 kilos of hashish resin at a company near Asturias airport.[1] The operation took place on 5 November 2026, when the man flew from Seville to Asturias to collect a parcel he had sent to the company through a transport firm.[1] Employees of the company opened the parcel by mistake, found it might hold drugs and called the Guardia Civil.[2]
The case was handled by officers of the Unidad Orgánica de Policía Judicial of the Asturias command and the Guardia Civil post at Piedras Blancas.[3] The parcel had been announced by a regular client of the firm, who said he would pick it up in person after landing in Asturias.[1] Officers took the parcel to the Avilés court on duty and obtained judicial authorisation to open and inspect it.[3] Inside were 159 hashish resin bars of 100 grams each, 15.9 kilos in total, and tests confirmed the substance was hashish.[1]
With the judge’s authorisation, officers prepared a similar replacement parcel and mounted a simulated delivery to arrest the recipient.[1] The suspect flew in on a flight from Seville due at 19.30, and officers followed him from the airport to the company offices and detained him when he identified himself and claimed the parcel.[1] He was then taken to Guardia Civil offices in Oviedo.[1]
The parcel had left Seville on 4 November with false sender and recipient names, and the amount far exceeds the 2.5 kilos at which Spanish courts treat hashish as of notorious importance.[1] The man was brought before the court on 6 November, which ordered him held in the Centro Penitenciario de Asturias.[1] The hashish is to be sent to Cantabria for definitive weighing and analysis.[1] The investigation had not established whether the hashish was meant for distribution in Asturias or for onward movement elsewhere.[4]
