• A third person has also been brought to court as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of document falsification.

• The estimated value of the drug would exceed 3.7 million euros.

April 8, 2025.- The Tax Agency and the Civil Guard have arrested two men aged 29 and 30, after the seizure of 1,800 kilos of hashish in Motril as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health, belonging to a criminal organization and another crime of document falsification. In addition, a 31-year-old woman has also been brought to court as the alleged perpetrator of the crime of document falsification.

In early February 2024, officers from the Granada Civil Guard's Maritime Service were alerted to the presence of a suspicious vessel off the coast of Granada. As they approached the area, they located the aforementioned boat with four people on board and observed four more on land unloading what appeared to be bales of hashish.

Upon approaching the scene, Maritime Service agents managed to intercept the boat, but the eight people managed to escape, although they left behind both the bales and the van in which they were to transport them. In total, more than 1,800 kilos of hashish were seized, with an estimated value of more than 3.7 million euros.

Customs Surveillance Agents from the Tax Agency in Motril, along with officers from the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard in Almuñécar, took charge of the investigation to try to locate the fugitives.

After a thorough analysis of the location where the now-detained suspects abandoned the stash, they found the first evidence that put them on the trail of the perpetrators.

Finally, following an investigation by judicial police officers, the two men were identified and arrested as alleged perpetrators of crimes against public health, membership in a criminal organization, and document forgery, as well as the crime of impersonating a civil status, as the van was rented using another person's identity.

A woman was also identified and brought to justice as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of document falsification, as she was the one who signed the rental contract for the intercepted van, knowing that the person signing the contract was not the person named on it.