Operation Kronos II seizes 7.2 tonnes of hashish and arrests eight in Huelva
Spanish Customs and the Civil Guard broke up an Ayamonte-based hashish clan in Operation Kronos II, seizing 7,200 kg across five stashes and arresting eight people in 14 raids on 27 June 2023. Pleasure craft with false bottoms ferried the bales ashore for distribution by off-road vehicles.
🇪🇸 Ayamonte, Isla Cristina and Villablanca, Huelva · Spain
Spain’s Customs Surveillance Service and the Civil Guard dismantled a family-clan
network smuggling hashish by sea along the Huelva coast, the Tax Agency announced
on 10 July 2023.[1]Operation Kronos II had begun the previous November after
investigators found consignments moving through Ayamonte and Isla Cristina.[1]
The network hid bales of hashish in false bottoms of pleasure craft, then moved
them by off-road vehicle to coastal caches and houses for distribution.[1]Officers foiled five stashes and seized7,200 kg of hashish, 15 boats and 14
vehicles in total.[1]
Two April-May seizures accounting for 2,600 kg of that total had been reported
earlier: 1,353 kg at a storage site near the Pozo del Camino marshes, with two
loaded firearms and 16 vehicles seized, and 39 bales weighing 1,300 kg abandoned
after a chase at Punta del Moral in Ayamonte, where two people were arrested.[2][1]
In the early hours of 27 June officers carried out 14 raids on homes and
warehouses in Ayamonte, Isla Cristina and Villablanca and arrested eight
suspected members; three were remanded in custody and five released on bond.[1]Officers also seized air guns, a taser, night-vision gear, ten luxury
watches and 17,075 euros in cash, and the investigations stayed open.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Overlap: the 2,600 kg from two April-May operations is included in the 7,200 kg total; whether other June seizures on this coast overlap is not stated.
Three of the eight arrested were remanded in custody and five released on bond; no names or trial outcomes were published.
The investigations were still open, so the totals may have grown after the announcement.
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