Three suspects under investigation after 68 kilos of hashish seized in Fuerteventura
The Guardia Civil is investigating three men in Fuerteventura in connection with the alleged smuggling of 68 kilograms of hashish along the coast of Costa Calma, in the south of the island. Two of the suspects have prior criminal records for offences including property crimes, drug trafficking and smuggling.
According to police sources, the men were detected on 26 December while allegedly waiting to receive a shipment of drugs from a vessel arriving from open sea. Officers from the Guardia Civil’s Morro Jable Main Post launched a joint operation with colleagues from Gran Tarajal after a boat was spotted behaving suspiciously as it headed towards Matas Blancas beach.
During the operation, officers identified three individuals and two vehicles in the area: a four-wheel-drive vehicle driven by one of the suspects and a van parked nearby with its doors open and the interior empty, reportedly prepared to transport the drugs. Suspecting a possible drug drop, police began searching the coastline and surrounding areas.
Shortly afterwards, a member of the public alerted officers to several packages floating offshore. With the citizen’s assistance, police towed the bundles to the shore, where they found they contained compressed tablets of a substance believed to be hashish, weighing an initial 24 kilograms. Further searches carried out using a recreational boat led to the discovery of a fourth bundle containing an additional 44 kilograms, bringing the total seized to 68 kilograms.
The three men under investigation, along with the case files, have been placed at the disposal of the investigating court on duty in Puerto del Rosario. The seized drugs will be sent to the Public Health Department in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for official weighing, analysis and examination.
