• In the operation, one person was arrested and 1,420 kilos of cocaine in bricks were seized, as well as a large vehicle.

• The transporter was arriving on the ferry from Ibiza.

• The cocaine pills had been brought into Ibiza by sea.

October 7, 2026. Customs Surveillance of the Tax Agency has proceeded to arrest a person under investigation for drug trafficking as he was about to enter the peninsula from the island of Ibiza. Operation 'Reventón' was carried out last Friday, October 2, as part of routine checks carried out by Customs Surveillance on the embarkations and disembarkations of ferries that connect the peninsula with the islands of the Balearic archipelago.

On this occasion, the unloading of vehicles from the island of Ibiza was controlled at one of the maritime terminals. During the inspection, which included the 'Medusa' scanner van, one of the vehicles showed an image consistent with contamination with a different substance than the rest of the vehicle.

Upon conducting a physical inspection of the merchandise, the agents located a large number of bales that, according to the 'narcotest' tests, proved positive for cocaine. The driver of the vehicle was immediately arrested and the narcotic substance was transferred for safekeeping.

In the Port of Valencia there are three terminals that connect with the Balearic archipelago. Customs Surveillance periodically carries out checks on the embarkations and disembarkations of ferries that link the peninsula with the Balearic Islands.

This type of action is common in the port of Valencia, transferring specialized personnel for vehicle scanner control through the so-called 'Medusa' van and dedicating specialized personnel in heritage investigation.

As a result of these vehicle control efforts on ferries, several operations against drug trafficking have been carried out.

For the execution of these operations, the necessary resources are available a few moments before the ship docks, so that the action is surprising and unexpected in order to avoid any communication that could jeopardize its correct execution.

In this type of operation, the use of the 'Medusa' van is fundamental, so that the number of vehicles checked is maximized. This van projects an 'X-ray' beam that penetrates the vehicle, obtaining an image at the same time that allows, without physical intrusion into the cargo, checking if the contents of the vehicle match what was declared, or if, on the contrary, there are false bottoms and if inside the cargo compartment there are different goods or goods with different densities that may indicate that they are narcotic substances.

Operation 'Blowout'

On this occasion, the Ibiza ferry was inspected. With the start of the disembarkation, various large vehicles were selected to be checked by the scanner.

During the inspection, it was observed that a vehicle clearly had two types of merchandise in the space reserved for cargo. When the agents proceeded to visually inspect the merchandise, they were able to observe that the final part of the load, behind a screen next to the door, consisted of a large number of bales of the type usually used for transporting narcotics, so they proceeded to carry out the 'narcotest' test, which yielded a positive result for cocaine.

At that moment, the vehicle, the merchandise and the detainee were transferred to Customs Surveillance facilities to proceed to draw up the corresponding report and make available to the Court of Instruction of Valencia, acting as duty judge, the detainee originally from Romania and the seized pills.

The count of the seized narcotic substance yielded a quantity of 1,420 cocaine pills.

The proceedings have been delivered to the Instruction Section of the Court of First Instance of Valencia.