31 held in Huelva raids; 3,831 kg of hashish and 180 plants seized
Guardia Civil officers detained 31 people in raids across Huelva province targeting an international cocaine-and-hashish trafficking organisation. Follow-up totals put the cannabis seizures at 3,831 kilograms of hashish and 180 cannabis plants.
🇪🇸 Huelva province: Huelva, Moguer, Trigueros, Gibraleón, Beas and San Juan del Puerto · Spain
A Guardia Civil macro-operation in Huelva province left up to 31 people
detained.[1]A later account put the 31 detentions at 25 in Huelva, two in
Seville, two in Algeciras, one in Granada and one in Malaga, for alleged
drug-trafficking, criminal-organisation, weapons, money-laundering, smuggling,
forgery, receiving and vehicle-theft offences.[2]The operation aimed to
dismantle a major criminal organisation active in cocaine and hashish
trafficking.[1]
About 300 Guardia Civil officers took part, alongside Colombian and Panamanian
police officers through the GDIN intelligence-sharing project.[1]Officers
carried out 18 searches for drugs and people connected with trafficking.[1]The searches covered Huelva city, Moguer, Trigueros, Gibraleon, Beas and San
Juan del Puerto.[1]Officials later said the 18 searches spanned ten
municipalities in four provinces, with cooperation from the US DEA, Colombia,
Europol, France and Portugal, Guardia Civil units and Customs Surveillance.[1]
Across the investigation’s actions officers seized278 kilograms of cocaine,
3,831 kilograms of hashish and 180 cannabis plants, plus more than 500,000 euros
in cash and several weapons of war.[2]The first-day account reported 29 kilos
of cocaine and hashish combined, plus properties, more than ten vehicles and
firearms.[1]The proceedings were declared secret and are directed by Huelva’s
Instruction Court No. 5 and the Huelva anti-drugs prosecutor.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
offences against public health; membership of a criminal organisation; possession and carrying of weapons; storage of weapons of war; money laundering; smuggling; forgery; receiving; motor vehicle theft
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Andalusia
Sources
El Españolelespanol.comESNueva macro redada contra el tráfico de cocaína y hachís en Huelva con 31 detenidos y ayuda de Colombia y Panamá
Agencia Atlasatlas-news.comESDesarticulada una organización dedicada a la introducción de cocaína en España y Portugal
Open questions the AI reported
The first-day account gave a combined 29 kilos of cocaine and hashish that cannot be separated, so only the later separated hashish total is counted as cannabis.
The 3,831 kilograms of hashish and 180 plants are totals across the investigation's different actions, so they cannot be assigned to individual searches on 19 December.
The cash, property and vehicle figures were reported approximately ('more than' 500,000 euros, 'more than' ten vehicles, 'numerous' properties) and are not counted in figures.
No laboratory confirmation, court outcome or further procedural step was reported; the case stood at the investigation stage with secret proceedings.
National Police in Palma arrested four men and one woman over drug trafficking and membership of a criminal organisation after tracing a 24-kilo hashish parcel to its recipient. Searches of two homes brought the hashish total to 60 kilos and also yielded 2 kilos of cocaine, weapons and about 10,000 euros in cash.
National Police arrested five men for drug trafficking in Palma in less than 24 hours, across four interventions in the Els Hostalets, Santa Catalina, and Son Gotleu neighbourhoods. Officers seized about 50 g of hashish, one marijuana joint, tusi, cocaine and ecstasy; no weight was given for the marijuana.
Local police in Melilla arrested a man after finding 501 grams of suspected hashish in the panniers of the electric bicycle he was riding on the pavement in Calle Santander. He was held in police cells to await a court appearance and the bicycle was seized; police gave no details about him.
The Guardia Civil, working with San Pedro del Pinatar's local police, arrested six people and shut a retail drug sales point in Lo Pagán, a coastal district of San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia. A search of the house near Villananitos beach found quantities of hashish alongside cocaine, heroin and MDA, and officers also seized cash, scales and bladed weapons.
