Customs Surveillance officers from the Tax Agency and Guardia Civil agents, working under Operation Nazarí 20 Owen, caught two members of a hashish trafficking group red-handed on 4 July 2022 as they unloaded bales from a yacht moored at the Marina del Este marina in Granada.[1] The group was under investigation for trafficking hashish from Morocco into Spain and other European countries.[1] The two detainees, aged 65 and 53 and identified in local reporting as British, were brought before a court, which ordered both held in prison.[1][2]

1,700 kilos in 55 bales

Officers searching the yacht found 1,700 kilos of hashish pollen, packed in plastic bags and distributed across 55 bales, which were seized at once.[1] The joint operation was carried out by the Tax Agency’s Customs Surveillance service in Motril and the Guardia Civil’s organised crime and anti-drug team in Granada.[1] The Gazette, reporting two days after the arrests, described nearly 2,000 kilos in 50 packages being unloaded on the Monday afternoon before the men were taken to police holding cells to await a magistrate.[2]