Spanish customs seize 4.8 tonnes of hashish in two Andalusia operations
Spain's Tax Agency seized 4,800 kilos of hashish in two customs operations off the Andalusia coast in late August 2008: 2,300 kilos from an inflatable boat at the Guadalquivir mouth and 2,500 kilos from a yacht off the Piedras mouth. Five people were arrested across the two seizures.
🇪🇸 Mouths of the Guadalquivir and Piedras rivers, Andalusia coast · Spain
Spain’s Tax Agency seized4,800 kilos of hashish in two operations off the
Andalusia coast in late August 2008, part of its CERROJO coastline monitoring
plan against drug trafficking and smuggling.[1]
In the first operation, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Cadiz
combined customs vessels Gerifalte I and Milano II boarded an eight-metre black
inflatable boat at the mouth of the Guadalquivir.[1]It carried 73 bales of
hashish of the type usually used for the drug, weighing more than 2,300 kilos;
three Moroccan nationals on board, one of them a minor, were arrested and handed
to duty Investigating Court No. 1 in Sanlucar de Barrameda with the drugs.[1]
The Piedras yacht
On Wednesday morning off Huelva, near the mouth of the Piedras, a patrol vessel
detected a yacht whose British registration number was not valid.[1]The
patrol boat HJ-X boarded it and found 85 bales of hashish weighing 2,500 kilos;
the two crew members, both Spanish nationals, were arrested, the 14-metre yacht
was seized, and all were remanded in custody by the Huelva duty court.[1]Customs officials said their investigation was continuing and further arrests
could not be ruled out.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only the Tax Agency's statement could be opened; no independent news account of these two operations was found.
The statement dates the seizures to a Tuesday and a Wednesday before its Friday 29 August release, giving 26 and 27 August; the days are inferred, not stated.
One of the three people arrested at the Guadalquivir mouth is described only as a minor, with no reported outcome.
The statement says further arrests in the Piedras operation could not be ruled out, with no follow-up found.
No photograph of either seizure with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
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