Spanish Police Bust Harbor Supply Boat for Picking Up Smuggled Cocaine
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\nSpanish authorities have arrested three people who are suspected of retrieving cocaine from the sea chest of a merchant ship off the coast of Las Palmas. It is the latest in a long string of drug busts in and around the Canary Islands, a region often used as a transfer point for the South America to Europe cocaine supply chain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spain’s Guardia Civil suspected that a commercial harbor supply boat – routinely used to transfer stores to vessels at anchor off Las Palmas – might be involved in illicit activities. During an inspection, officers uncovered a large suitcase with multiple packets of cocaine in it. This discovery prompted a more thorough search of the vessel, and the officers turned up a cache of diving equipment in the hold – the kind of gear that one would need for accessing a ship’s hull for smuggling purposes. All three crewmembers from the supply boat were arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After finding the gear, a special unit of the Guardia Civil deployed to inspect the anchored merchant vessel where the crew of the supply boat allegedly retrieved the cocaine. A dive team found another black wrapped package of cocaine bricks in the vessel’s sea chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n???????? Bajo el casco del buque no solo hab\u00eda acero y \u00f3xido\u2026 tambi\u00e9n 22 kg de coca\u00edna.<\/p>\n
En total, 7??2?? kg incautados por la @guardiacivil<\/a> en Las Palmas.<\/p>\n
???? El mar esconde secretos, pero no todos permanecen sumergidos…<\/p>\n
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