Twenty-three agents of the National Police Corps attached to the Arrecife Police Station, in collaboration with seven members of the Citizen Security and Intervention Unit of the Local Police of the island's capital, arrested five individuals early this past Sunday while they were in the Molino Verde bar, next to the Puerto Naos esplanade.
According to sources that lavozdelanzarote.com has had access to, the operation, carried out at around 06:30 on Sunday, was due to police suspicions surrounding drug trafficking carried out in the vicinity of various establishments in the area, as well as the continuous fights that have been taking place both outside and inside the premises.
In the raid, five young men of Colombian origin were arrested, three of them for violating the Immigration Law, and two others for disobedience and resistance to Agents of the Authority.
Although it was initially reported that it was precisely from the aforementioned bar that the [two Colombian nationals who died->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=4236] on Saturday morning when their car crashed in Puerto Naos came from, even the owner of the establishment has denied that those mentioned consumed a drop of alcohol inside it.
"Every weekend around 6 in the morning they come because this bar is open, but they always stay outside, with the music at full volume from their cars and drinking alcohol that they already bring from another place," he explained.
