The Civil Guard, the National Police and Customs Surveillance of the Tax Agency have intervened in Huelva 3,750 kilos of hashish in two operations in eight days, the result of coordinated surveillance by the three bodies deployed in the framework of the intensification of the fight against drug trafficking on the Huelva coast.
The first of the operations began on the night of June 1 when the investigators, in a joint surveillance device, detected a van visibly overloaded in the back that was stopped, as reported by the Civil Guard in a statement.
The driver of the vehicle ignored the instructions of the agents and thus began a chase through the area of the Isla Canela marshes until he could not continue due to the harassment of the police vehicles, abandoning the pursued van and fleeing. .
After an initial visual inspection of the vehicle, a total of 78 bundles of burlap and raffia of those commonly used to transport hashish resin were found inside, weighing approximately 2,700 kilos.
In addition, it was found that the intervened van had bent registration plates and that it was a stolen vehicle in the province of Badajoz.
The second operation began on the night of June 9, when the Integrated External Surveillance System (SIVE) detected a semi-rigid vessel, known as 'narcolanchas', to the south of Punta Umbría, and a land operation was immediately arranged before the suspicions that a drug trafficking operation could be carried out.
Minutes later, the acting agents detected how a recreational boat, about six meters in length, was leaving the Punta Umbría estuary heading south.
This boat was later attached to the 'narcolancha', at which time the packages were transferred from the semi-rigid to the pleasure boat.
Once the transfer of packages was finished, it headed north to enter the Punta Umbría estuary again, starting by the researchers a discreet terrestrial monitoring device.
Inside the seized vessel were 30 bundles of burlap and raffia, commonly used for transporting hashish resin, weighing approximately 1,050 kilos.
Both the ship and the seized narcotic substance were transferred to the port of Huelva.
Both investigations remain open by the Civil Guard, National Police and Customs Surveillance, and arrests are not ruled out.
