Cadiz heist on judicial storage unit. Incredible!

If drugs in Spain weren't already a problem, the last thing we need is for all the good work by the police to go to waste. I was amazed to read the other day that 290 kilos of cocaine were stolen from right under their noses, over 7 million euros worth. A gang broke into a judicial storage unit which was apparently well secured, but as the police stated "not well enough,obviously". Well yes, obviously not. It was only last year that another 300 kg was stolen from a similar storage unit in Malaga and the year before that in Seville. You would have thought they would have learnt their lesson. But no, not only did they manage to disarm all the security systems and get away on Saturday, it wasn't discovered until Monday, as the unit wasn't even guarded by a single policeman. A storage unit that was housing Andalusia’s largest ever single haul of cocaine: three tons seized by the Special Group of Operations at high sea onboard the SS Nikolai, 75 millions euros worth of drugs and not a single policeman on site. Obviously the police have said that the gang was very specialised and had an intimate knowledge of the security system. Just how intimate? I don't want to be untrusting, but it all sounds a bit suspicious. 

This message was last edited by eos_ian on 04/10/2012.

All rather like a film plot don't you think? I seem to remember in the film Bad boys, the criminals steeling their drugs back. Film & TV give crims too many ideas on how to beat the law.

If you look into Spanish police involvement in drug dealing over many years, it might not seem so surprising that these valuable drugs have 'disappeared.'

 Totally agree with you eggcup! I just read an article on it just now and It's way too obvious, I bet your bottom dollor that it's an insider job, maybe the police have found a new way to do fund raising. I can't believe that they would leave so much cocaine without 24hr surveillance. "They had intimate knowledge of the security systems" of course they did it's their security system. Do you think that a gang would go to all the effort to break in to recover their "assets" and only walk away with 10% of it. Somehow I don't think so. If they knew they could get in on a Saturday and that there wouldn't be any surveillance, they knew it wouldn't be discovered until Monday, so what's the rush, why only fill one car. Apparantly the police said they took just the right amount to fit in the boot of a car. How would they know that? What car was it? How big was it's boot? They disabled the camaras. The only thing they could say was that it was a "massive display of incompetance on their behalf" but no one is being investigated at the moment. I can't believe that they can be so incompetant. But hey, for 7 million euros I bet they would admit to any amount of incompetance.

"THIEVES broke into a customs warehouse in Huelva on New Year's Eve and stole over a tonne of hash which had been seized from smugglers, police say.

An estimated eight to 10 masked individuals entered the building at just a few seconds before midnight, since border officials would have been temporarily away from their posts and seeing in the New Year.

They are said to have loaded 30 packages of marijuana in two all-terrain vehicles and a trailer and got away before security guards returned"

This sounds all too familiar! :)