• The drug was in a package from Ecuador that was subject to a delivery monitored by agents of the Customs Surveillance Service.

July 3, 2024.- Officials of the Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency in Cantabria have proceeded to the arrest of a man and a woman as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health for drug trafficking, seizing a quantity of cocaine to be determined. The drug was hidden in a package from Ecuador that contained beauty and nutrition products and was delivered under surveillance by SVA agents to arrest the recipients of the shipment.

The action has its origin in a communication received at the Regional Customs Surveillance Operational Unit of Madrid on June 26. Officials from the Risk Unit of the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport detected a postal shipment from Ecuador that, when examined by X-rays, presented densities compatible with narcotic substances.

The postal package from Ecuador declared to contain a series of aesthetic and nutritional products. Taking into account the characteristics of the package and the data observed in relation to the recipient and the delivery address, it was agreed to carry out the necessary actions to proceed with a supervised delivery, with the corresponding authorization from the Madrid Guard Court.

The next day, the supervised delivery of the package was carried out to its recipient, a woman residing in Ramales de la Victoria, of Spanish nationality, who came with another person, who stated that she was the actual recipient of the package, which is why the to the arrest of both.

This second person, a man of Colombian origin, stated that he did not have a Spanish identification document, which is why, and in accordance with his statement, he asked the woman, to whom he had rented a room in his home, to appear as the recipient of the package and that she was the one to receive it.

After the package was opened at the courthouse in Laredo, three of the canisters that were the subject of the shipment, with a combined gross weight of 2.3 kilos, tested positive for cocaine reagent once the narco test was carried out.

The detainees have been imprisoned, in accordance with what was decreed by the judicial authority.