PHOTOS: Sergio Betancort/Provided
The number of detainees for the drug boat that arrived this Thursday at Famara beach has risen to 13, according to the Teguise City Council, which has stated that the seized drug amounts to 100 kilos of hashish.
The Police Councilor of Teguise, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, has congratulated the agents of the Local Police "for the rapid response and for their intervention in the area, as well as the State Security Forces and Corps, the emergency services of Lanzarote and the volunteers of Emerlan, "for their great work in complicated and dangerous situations like today's".
In addition, he thanked the citizen collaboration, "very important to be able to act quickly against any criminal act that occurs in the municipality".
It was around 9:30 a.m. when the security and emergency services received an alert in which the arrival of the boat to the Papelillo area of Famara Beach was reported. In addition, according to the Civil Guard, the presence of a vehicle was reported, which was picking up the immigrants.
Local Police and Civil Guard launched a joint operation arresting several people related to the boat and the suspicious vehicle, where agents found four bundles of hashish and several smaller packages in the same area, drug that is now known to amount to 100 kilos.
Of the 11 occupants of the boat, all men of Maghrebi origin and of legal age, one of them had to be transferred to the Molina Orosa Hospital after presenting a fracture in an arm, according to La Voz from the Red Cross, which was who attended to the immigrants together with Emerlan. After carrying out the corresponding police procedures, the immigrants will be transferred to the National Police Station of Arrecife, competent in matters of immigration.