Operation Bogavante nets 3,240 kilos of hashish at Sanlúcar
Spain's Tax Agency seized about 3,240 kilos of hashish in 108 bales from a fishing vessel at the Bonanza quay in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 3 July 2009 during Operation Bogavante. The vessel's owner was arrested and the boat seized.
🇪🇸 Bonanza quay, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz · Spain
Spain’s Tax Agency seized about 3,240 kilograms of hashish in the early hours of
Friday 3 July 2009 during Operation Bogavante, part of a special Customs Surveillance
deployment at the mouth of the Guadalquivir.[1]Air, naval and land units had been
watching a fishing vessel suspected of drug trafficking, and kept it under
surveillance once it moored at the Bonanza quay in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.[1]
When officers searched the vessel, no one was on board, but it was visibly loaded
with burlap and raffia bales of the kind commonly used for hashish: 108 bales
weighing about 3,240 kilos.[1]The fishing vessel’s owner was identified and
arrested, and the drugs, the detainee and the seized vessel were handed over to the
duty court in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, with the agency saying further arrests could not
be ruled out.[1]
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