Agents of the Civil Guard arrested this past Thursday afternoon on the Island another five people involved in Operation "Aladín", initiated by the Armed Institute several months ago and related to the introduction and trafficking of drugs, hashish resin more specifically, in Lanzarote.
The five new detainees are very young, according to sources close to the investigation, and their role within this international network dedicated to drug trafficking was the sale and distribution of hashish on the Island, once it arrived at dawn from the coast of Morocco.
The detainees, all of them of legal age, are natives of Arrecife and join the twelve Maghrebi and the other Lanzarote native who were captured in the first two interventions.
With these new arrests, the number of people arrested now amounts to 18, six men born on the Island (one native of Tinajo and five others born in Arrecife) and twelve of Maghrebi origin (three of them residents on the Island, specifically, in Nazaré, Playa Blanca and Arrecife).
Likewise, the amount of hashish seized by the Civil Guard in this operation reaches 741 kilograms, after two boats were intercepted when they disembarked on October 6 and 9 with 641 and 100 kilos of this drug, respectively, on beaches of the coast of Tinajo.
As will be recalled, Operation "Aladín" began to bear fruit last week after months of hard work and investigation by the Civil Guard, when up to 20 patrols of the Benemérita mounted a special device and [discovered 641 kilos of hashish on board a boat, arresting nine people->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=2606], five of them on board the boat and the rest while waiting for the landing on the beach inside two rental cars. On the other hand, three days later the Armed Institute seized [another shipment of 100 more kilos of hashish->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=2644] that was also going to be introduced along the coast of Tinajo and aboard another boat, and arrested four Moroccan people.
Sources close to the case confirmed that the operation is not closed by any means and that the investigations of the Civil Guard are continuing, so it is not ruled out that new arrests will occur in the next few hours.
