Spain’s Tax Agency seized 3,750 kilos of hashish in three operations at the mouth of the Guadalquivir between 26 and 30 June 2009, part of a special coastal surveillance deployment in Andalusia.[1]
On the night of 26 June, air, naval and land units intercepted a 12-metre inflatable boat running dark and fast toward the river mouth, then moved in as its crew unloaded at the Bonanza dock in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, recovering 13 bales weighing 390 kilos.[1] In the early hours of 28 June, officers stopped a second 12-metre boat approaching the Real Fernando jetty, also in Sanlúcar, and found 76 bales weighing about 2,280 kilos inside a trailer towed by an off-road vehicle.[1]
The Chipiona recovery
In the early hours of 30 June off Punta Montijano in Chipiona, a patrol boat boarded an inflatable under surveillance that fled, throwing bales overboard; 36 bales weighing about 1,080 kilos were recovered from the water.[1] The agency said investigations were continuing and arrests could not be ruled out; the drugs were placed at the disposal of the duty Investigating Magistrate’s Court in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.[1]
