The Civil Guard seizes 4,500 kilos of hashish in two inflatable boats in Canary waters

The boats were sailing with two people in each of them, carrying a total of 131 bundles.

November 12 2024 (11:14 WET)
Updated in November 12 2024 (20:30 WET)
Seizure of 4,500 kg of hashish
Seizure of 4,500 kg of hashish

The Civil Guard in Gran Canaria, in coordination with the Directorate of Surveillance of the Moroccan Territory (DGST), intercepted two inflatable boats on November 2, when their occupants were trying to introduce a significant shipment of drugs into the Canary archipelago.

Within the framework of the functions of controlling the territorial sea and specifically the prevention of smuggling and drug trafficking entrusted to the Provincial Maritime Service and the close police cooperation existing with the DGST of Morocco, a surveillance device was activated in the territorial sea, knowing that in a temporary strip of two days in November, the arrival to the coast of Gran Canaria of two boats from Morocco was planned in order to unload on our coasts.

Therefore, intensive surveillance services were established by the Río Tambre and Canal Bocayna patrol boats of the Civil Guard of Las Palmas, carrying out the appropriate surveillance about 50 miles north between the islands of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.

During the device of the early morning of November 2, two boats suspected of transporting large quantities of drugs were detected by the agents, which led to the operational intervention as they were two narco-boats, with two people sailing in each boat, in which they carried 131 bundles containing a total of 4,723 kilograms of hashish.

After the successful action, 4 people were arrested, and the detainees and the drugs were transferred to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for the instruction of proceedings, with the detainees being brought to judicial disposition on November 4 in Courts number 7, decreeing the imprisonment of the four crew members.

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