The Guardia Civil detained one person in Palos de la Frontera for possessing drugs apportioned for retail sale and for serious disobedience after trying to flee the police.[1] One occupant of a stopped car fled on foot, throwing away a backpack and a bag, and was located and detained after trying to hide from the police.[1]

Inside the discarded backpack and bag officers found many small plastic bags holding substances later analysed as marijuana and cocaine, prepared for retail distribution and sale.[1] Officers also found cash split into banknotes and coins of different values inside the bags, described as presumed proceeds of retail drug trafficking.[1] The detained person, the seized substances and the seized money were placed at the disposal of the judicial authority handling the case.[1]

The incident happened at the end of October in Palos de la Frontera, when a citizen-security patrol on crime-prevention duties ordered a car to stop and the car ignored the order, prompting officers to follow it until they stopped it.[1]