Customs Surveillance Operation of the Tax Agency

• The narcotic substance was transported by a semi-rigid inflatable boat measuring twelve meters in length with two engines of 300 HP each.
• One of those in charge of transshipping the drugs from the boat to a van has been arrested

October 18, 2022.- Customs Surveillance Officials from the Tax Agency have seized 180 kilos of hashish that had been stowed from a semi-rigid boat on Balanegra beach (Almería) and have detained A person.

The operation began on October 12 at around 00:30 hours, when the Customs Surveillance patrol boat 'Alca', based in Almería, detected the presence of a semi-rigid boat that was sailing north towards the area of Punta del Adra River.

Immediately, the vessel was monitored by sea, with support from the forces deployed on land.

Around 2:00 a.m., the boat made landfall on Balanegra beach, where there were about ten people, who began to transfer the bales from the boat to a van.

At that moment, Customs Surveillance officials took action, both by sea and by land, leading to the seizure of five bales of hashish, the arrest of one of the people involved in the cache, with the initials NLS, as well as the seizure of different radio communication devices and 900 liters of fuel.

It was found that the boat used in the stash was a twelve-meter-long semi-rigid inflatable boat with two engines of 300 HP each, one of those usually used for hashish trafficking from Morocco to the Spanish coast.

Subsequently, the boat with the detainee, the narcotic substance and the confiscated gasoline was transferred to the port of Almería, where it was provisionally deposited. The competent judicial authority is the Investigative Court number two of Berja (Almería) on duty.

Investigations remain open by the Customs Surveillance Operational Unit in Almería, in order to determine the identity of the rest of the people who intervened in the cache.