Civil Guard Seizes Helicopter Carrying 200 kg of Hashish in Malaga, Spain

The aircraft had been located on July 2 in the Sierra de Torremolinos area, near the A-7 motorway. For the moment, the Civil Guard agents have no information on the circumstances in which the aircraft landed in the area. The investigation is ongoing and could lead to further arrests, reports La Opinion de Malaga.

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Images of the narco-helicopter have been circulating on social networks. It is a Robinson R44, an American four-seater model, capable of carrying a load of about 400 kilos and reaching a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The model is the same as the one intercepted in 2015 by the Civil Guard in the Bomber operation, carried out in Malaga, Cadiz, Toledo and Madrid and which led to the arrest of 15 people and the seizure of a ton of Moroccan hashish.

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The seizure of this aircraft comes a few days after the national police intercepted in Malaga a 4.35-meter narco-drone used by a French criminal organization of Moroccan origin to transport hashish and marijuana from Morocco to Spain for distribution in France.