Eight people have been arrested in Águilas (Murcia) with four semi-rigid boats and 5,000 liters of gasoline that were used for drug trafficking, reports the Civil Guard.
The investigation began in June and allowed a group to be identified led by a known criminal settled in that municipality and specialized in logistical support to drug traffickers with fuel and geolocation devices, as well as facilitating the concealment of the boats.
It acted when high-speed boats coming from the north of Africa They arrived at the Murcian coast supposedly loaded with hashishafter which they took them with several tractors and a large bridge crane to a warehouse in Águilas.
Once the conditions allowed them to be refloated without risk of being detected, they were returned to the water with the full tank of fuel ready to return to their place of origin, where the industrial warehouse and two addresses in Águilas were registered, along with another in the Almeria municipality of Cuevas de Almanzora.
The detained persons are accused of being alleged perpetrators of drug trafficking crimes in the form of favoring and cooperation, smuggling, illicit possession of weapons and membership in a criminal organization. They have been 10 cars were also seizedtrailers, motorcycles and tractors, the overhead crane, 10 geolocation devices and a short weapon.
This operation is not related to the one opened on November 16 after an accident occurred on the RM 12 highway in Murcia. accident due to the fall of a boat to the roadway detached from the trailer of a vehicle that fled. This incident caused the death of two people and injuries to eight others in the Cartagena district of El Algar.