Police raided a warehouse in the Martín Méndez industrial estate in Estepona used by a gang of British drug-runners, chosen for its proximity to the motorway and to the local beach where the drugs were landed in bales.[1][2] The gang used hollowed-out wooden beams to transport the drugs to the UK.[1][2]

Officers found 1,200 kilos of hashish at the site, along with enough prepared beams to move the cargo.[1][2] They arrested three Britons, one a 16-year-old minor.[1][2]