Police seize 11,000 kilos of hashish in Seville garage
Spanish police seized 11,000 kilograms of hashish from an underground parking lot in Seville in January 2009, in what the US embassy called the country's largest drug operation of the year. No arrests or further details were given in the available account.
Spanish police seized11,000 kilograms of hashish from an underground parking lot in Seville in January 2009.[1]The US embassy in Madrid, reporting on Spain’s drug year, called it what would prove the security forces’ largest operation of 2009.[1]The seizure opened a year of heavy hashish interceptions across Spain: 7,000 kilos followed in February, 2,100 in Ibiza and 3,000 more in a boat near Cadiz in April, and 13,750 kilos in five operations in June.[1]
Spain remained the major transit point to Europe for hashish from Morocco, and its police, Civil Guard and customs service raised their operational tempo through the year even as total hashish seizures fell to about half of 2008 levels by September.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one account of this seizure could be opened; no Spanish police statement or press report was recoverable.
Only January 2009 is known for the seizure; the report is filed at the end of that month.
No arrests, exact location within Seville, origin of the shipment or street value were given in the available account.
The same account lists further large 2009 seizures in February, April and June, each a separate event left out here.
An English-language local news page about the seizure was unreachable at the time of research, so no corroborating detail or event photo could be verified.
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