The Spanish anti-drug police (UDYCO) seized 15.36 tons of Moroccan hashish, hidden in watermelons and plastic potatoes, in the port of Almeria. In total, eight people were arrested, including five in Almeria and three in Torremolinos.
Drug traffickers like the "Messi of hashish", Jesús Pantoja or "El Yeyo" continue to carry out their trafficking in Spain from Morocco or Dubai. Their new discovery to make their business more profitable, the creation of narco-cooperatives.
Moroccan customs officers arrested two young French women at the Ceuta border crossing who were traveling to the autonomous city with 20 kilos of hashish hidden in their car.
The Spanish police, in coordination with Europol, dismantled a criminal organization active in Algeciras and Ceuta, specializing in the trafficking of migrants and drugs between Morocco and Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar. The network transported both migrants and drugs on makeshift boats piloted by minors.
The Guardia Civil at the port of Algeciras arrested a man who was transporting more than seven kilos of hashish in a truck from Morocco, concealed in fruit juice cartons.
Dutch authorities are studying the possibility of legally importing hashish from Morocco to satisfy the ever-growing local demand.
The Guardia Civil seized over 600 kilos of Moroccan hashish transported in a motorhome attempting to enter Algeciras at the port of Ceuta.
Spain is waging a fierce battle against hashish trafficking from Morocco. In the space of three months, the Guardia Civil has seized more than 700 kilos of hashish at sea in Ceuta.
Civil Guard officers at the port of Ceuta would be accomplices of a drug trafficking network that was bringing in large shipments into the autonomous city from Morocco via a secret tunnel. They would have received 120,000 euros for this collaboration.
Jesús Heredia, alias el Pantoja, right-hand man and trusted man of the "Messi of hashish", is wanted by the judicial authorities of Ceuta for his alleged involvement in several cases of hashish trafficking.
Wanted by the Spanish justice to answer various crimes, Abdellah El Haj Sadek El Menbri, alias "Messi of hashish", remains untraceable. The fugitive criminal, considered the head of the largest hashish trafficking network in Spain, is said to have taken refuge in Morocco, his country of origin.
The Catalan authorities arrested in early March at the Barcelona airport a 44-year-old woman from Morocco carrying two kilos of hashish in her stomach, as she was trying to pass customs.