Cornered, they burned down the house where they kept the drugs in Mijas. The inhabitants of the house, they had to be rescued by emergency services and were subsequently arrested. They had 500 kilos of cocaine in this “daycare” or drug warehouse, as well as a machine gun … MP15, considered a weapon of war, to defend the cargo against possible attacks from other organizations. Ultimately, more than 2,000 kilos of cocaine were seized during different phases of the investigation.
The Civil Guard and the National Police, in a joint operation and in collaboration with French customs, dismantled this drug trafficking network in the Operation “Lévi-Lobera”who transported cocaine hidden in vehicles from the Costa del Sol to different countries in Europe.
The investigation began in March this year, when researchers from Udyco Costa del Sol of the National Police and the Organic Unity of Judicial Police of the Malaga Civil Guard Command They learned separately that several people belonging to a criminal group intended to send drugs from the city of Fuengirola (Málaga) to the Netherlands. For them, they were going to use a heavy truck dedicated to transporting goods by road.
After cross-checking the data obtained by agents of the two police forces, it was decided to creater a joint working group in order to dismantle and arrest the members of this criminal group.
Thanks to the information collected by the investigators and provided to the French customs authorities, the said the truck was intercepted on French territory with 826 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside. One person was detained there.
Likewise, this criminal organization had sent a second truck near the first, which was also detected by investigators from the province of Barcelona. I wore others 500 kilograms of cocaine inside.
The operational efforts carried out by the investigators continued to bear fruit when, in May, he was intercepted. a new road shipment to the United Kingdomseizing 200 kilograms of cocaine. Furthermore, in this case, a “daycare” was discovered where the drugs remained hidden on British territory until their distribution. There were still 180 kilograms there.
In the same month of May, agents detected the hiding place of this narcotic throughnarcolanchas along the coast of the municipality of Marbella (Málaga). This allowed investigators to discover a new drug “daycare” in Mijas. This is the one they set on fire.
They put the hideouts on the Costa del Sol through the use of drug boats across the Mediterranean
When they went to search it, after noting the police presence, the drug traffickers they set the house on fire where they hid the narcotic, in order to destroy it and make it disappear, the agents having to put out the flames and help these two people, who were arrested. In the house, 520 kilos of cocaine, several stolen vehicles and a machine gun containing numerous ammunition were seized.
In August, the investigation concluded, moving into the exploitation phase where several registrations and registers in the city of Mijasthe city where this criminal organization was based.
The operation resulted in the arrest of five people, the arrest of 2,280 kilograms of cocaineseveral trucks, several double bottom vehicles made for this purpose, three stolen vehicles and an MP15 submachine gun. The detainees were brought to justice for the alleged commission of drug trafficking crimes, illegal possession of weapons and membership in a criminal organization.
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