• The four defendants were travelling on the same flight from third countries with a final European destination.

• The drug was vacuum-packed and hidden among different types of tissue.

November 12, 2024.- Customs officials from the Tax Agency, together with Civil Guard agents belonging to the Tax and Borders Section of the Tenerife South Airport, have arrested four people, between 24 and 41 years of age, as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health, in its form of drug trafficking.

The crimes were discovered when Customs officials from the Travel Service and Civil Guard agents who were carrying out a random fiscal checkpoint of passengers and luggage for several flights from third countries, observed through X-ray scanners that something suspicious could be hidden inside the luggage of the four accused (two suitcases each).

Thus, they decided to interview all of them and, given the nervous and incongruous attitude shown by the suspects, they proceeded to open the eight suitcases, finding inside and in a hidden manner, more than 110 kilos of marijuana vacuum-wrapped in different types of fabric.

The detainees, along with the seized drugs and the investigations carried out, have been placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority.