3.7 tonnes of hashish seized from Quiet Waters off Ibiza
Spanish customs officers boarded the British-registered fishing boat Quiet Waters between Ibiza and Formentera just before midnight on 4 October 2005 and found 125 bales of hashish weighing 3.7 tonnes. Four Britons and a Moroccan were arrested in what officials called the biggest hashish haul off Ibiza in 17 years.
🇪🇸 Waters between Ibiza and Formentera, Balearic Islands · Spain
Spanish customs officers boarded the 59ft British-registered fishing boat
Quiet Waters between Ibiza and Formentera just before midnight on Tuesday and
overpowered the crew before searching it.[1]They found 125 bales of
hashish weighing 3.7 tonnes, valued at 11.1 million pounds on the black
market, in the biggest haul seized off Ibiza for 17 years.[1]Four Britons
and a Moroccan were arrested and handed to the national police when the
customs patrol vessel reached Ibiza.[1]
The detained Britons were named as Earl Edwin Bridge, 45, and Wayne Robert
Bridge, 44, both from Birmingham, James Alexander Cootes, 22, from Brecon, and
Andrew William John Coventry, 41, from Manchester.[1]Spain’s director of
state administration for the Balearics, Jose Manuel Bar, said the drugs had
come from North Africa and were bound for the European market.[1]A month
later Earl Bridge had been released without charge while Wayne Bridge, Cootes,
Coventry and the Moroccan man remained in custody in Ibiza.[2]
Case data
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The first report places the search just before midnight on Tuesday 4 October while a later account dates the boarding to 3 October, and this report uses 4 October.
No photograph of the Quiet Waters boarding or the seized bales with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
One of the four Britons was later released without charge, and no trial outcome for the others was reported in the opened sources.
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