Customs officers and National Police have dismantled an organisation that was preparing to smuggle 3,000 kilograms of hashish into Girona by sailing boat, arresting seven people of five nationalities in the province.[1]
The group collected the drug from boats off the southern coast of Ibiza and unloaded it at the mooring of a private house in Santa Margarida, Roses, a canal neighbourhood where every house has its own jetty and residents turn over too fast to identify the members easily.[1] After watching a sailing boat arrive at midday on 12 April, officers moved in during the early hours of 13 April as the suspects loaded hashish bales into a van, arresting three people and pulling a fourth man from the water after he jumped in to escape.[1]
A follow-up operation arrested four more people and seized 75 bales of hashish weighing 2,854 kilograms, along with a second sailing boat the group had set aside after it broke down.[1] Searching the stash house, officers also found a cannabis plantation inside the same building that held the hashish, and raided a second plantation elsewhere, seizing 864 plants in total.[1] The seven detainees, two Germans, one Colombian, one French citizen, two Spaniards and one Romanian, were brought before Investigating Court No. 6 in Figueres.[1] The agency calls it the largest seizure of hashish smuggled by pleasure craft in Girona province in a decade.[1]
