3,750 kg of hashish seized in two Huelva operations within eight days
Customs, National Police and the Civil Guard seized 3,750 kg of hashish in two June 2023 operations in Huelva: 2,700 kg in a stolen van at Isla Canela and 1,050 kg transhipped to a pleasure craft off Punta Umbría. Both drivers escaped.
Customs officers, National Police and Civil Guard seized3,750 kg of hashish in
two operations eight days apart on the Huelva coast, the Tax Agency said on 1
July 2023.[1]
On the evening of 1 June officers chased an overloaded van through the Isla
Canela marshlands until the driver abandoned it and fled; inside were 78 bales
weighing about 2,700 kg, and the van proved stolen in Badajoz province with bent
number plates.[1]
On the evening of 9 June the SIVE surveillance system spotted a drug-smuggling
speedboat south of Punta Umbría transferring packages to a six-metre pleasure
craft, which officers followed to the Astur salt flats; its crew also fled,
leaving 30 bales weighing about 1,050 kg.[1]Both cases went to the courts in
Ayamonte and Huelva, and further arrests were not ruled out.[1]
Case data
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No arrests were reported; the van driver and the boat crews fled, and the investigations were still open.
Only the agency's statement was opened for this report, so its figures are not corroborated by a second outlet.
Overlap: a 10 July agency statement on Operation Kronos II totals 7,200 kg over five stashes; whether these June seizures are counted there is not stated.
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The Guardia Civil investigated a man in Aguilar de la Frontera, Córdoba, after a neighbour reported being threatened with a short firearm; he handed over an air pistol. Officers then found eight cannabis plants, about 1.60 metres tall, grown inside his home, with buds weighing 920 grams, and put the file before a court.
Guardia Civil officers intercepted a parcel holding 15.9 kilos of hashish resin at a transport company near Asturias airport, then arrested the 37-year-old Seville man who flew in to collect it in a simulated delivery. A judge sent him to prison on 6 November 2026.
Mossos d'Esquadra found a fully equipped forest camp in Figuerola del Camp holding more than 1,000 kilos of marijuana buds ready for sale. No arrests were reported and the investigation to identify those behind the site remains open.
