Police capture gang using babies to smuggle drugs
Friday, August 28, 2009 @ 3:04 PM
Spanish Police have prevented a group from smuggling vast amounts of narcotics into the country following a widespread and long-term operation in various locations across the territory.
Guardia Civil agents in Cadiz, Ceuta and Malaga arrested a total of 21 people while a further 13 have also been charged.
The group had attempted to sneak cocaine and hashish into Spain by hiding the drugs in chocolate bars sent from South America or by storing them in children’s prams.
The group was split into three different sections with each responsible for a different part of the process from sending and collecting the narcotics to stealing the vehicles used to smuggle the drugs by land or sea. As a result of Operation Bedú set up by the Guardia Civil in 2008, authorities have now managed to dismantle one of the most active criminal organisations involved in drug trafficking and stolen vehicles on the Costa del Sol.
People of five different nationalities were arrested whilst around 300 grams of cocaine and more than 1,600 kilos of hashish were taken. Eleven vehicles, 56,500 euros in cash as well as various electrical appliances like computers were also seized by police.
Source: Gibraltar Chronicle