The Customs Surveillance Service in Seville and National Police officers dismantled a family clan based in the hamlet of Marismillas, in Las Cabezas de San Juan, that grew cannabis on indoor and outdoor crops across several family properties and prepared the buds for distribution to third parties.[1] The investigation, overseen by the Lebrija court, began in early August and uncovered how the network collected, harvested, packaged and prepared the cannabis.[1]

On 1 October more than 150 officers carried out eleven search-and-seizure operations at the suspects’ homes as part of Operation Millaverde/Baton.[1] Officers seized more than a tonne of cannabis and two kilograms of cocaine, alongside a pistol, a sawn-off shotgun, two 12-gauge shotguns, a modified carbine, two air rifles, an extendable baton, a luxury car and more than 4,000 euros in cash.[1] Twenty people, all Spanish nationals, were arrested on suspicion of membership of a criminal organisation, drug trafficking, unlawful possession of firearms and electricity theft.[1]