Alicante,arrest of two British citizens smuggling hash from Morocco to the Spanish coast

joint customs surveillance and the civil guard service anti-drugs operation has been cleared with the seizure of about 800 kilograms of hashish in Xàbia and the arrest of two British citizens tripulaban's recreation that drugs under the roof in a proof area was misleadingly boat. The hide method is novel, because the hashish was under the so-called bath and yesterday had to use a radar to access to the area between the town and transitable cover.
The boat and detainees were transferred to the port of Alicante, where yesterday proceeded to make registration and seizure of drugs in presence of the Secretary of the Court of guard.
Arrested two are English and Irish source and late yesterday morning were transferred by agents of the team organized crime and Antidroga (EDOA) of the civil guard from one of the docks of West area until the command of Alicante, where it was planned the investigation and interrogation of the taken together with who participated in the operational customs officials.
Interceptada boat has a length of seven metres approximately and each is equipped with two Suzuki 115 horsepower engines. The boat was supposedly the journey the Alicante coast directly from Morocco, sources close to the case. Researchers try to find out if the download of the drug port was Xàbia or really addressed there detect that had been discovered.
The vessel was intercepted at nine in the evening last Monday in the Fontana in Xàbia, boat mooring there on the beach of the Arenal area canal. The boat approached there the be pursued by a helicopter customs to suspect that could carry drugs. Arenal neighbors noted that the helicopter landed on the beach and customs officials ran towards the two occupants. Two traffickers were captured a few metres of the place where abandoned the vessel.
At first sight there was no drug in the boat, but to suspicions that ocultara a cache of hashish the gunboat customs it moved to Alicante, where arrived on the two in the morning. The arrested spent the night in the civil guard dungeons and yesterday were driven back to the port to perform logging in the presence of the Court Secretary. The drug was distributed in packages of different sizes and apart from the resin of hashish had enough bundles of pollen of hashish, which is more expensive in the black market.
The anti-drugs operation remains open and new arrests depending on the progress of investigations are discarded.
The two British detainees not had been arrested previously by customs, although not has transcended if they were fichados by the civil guard or the national police.
This cache seizure confirms that networks of drug trafficking that operate between Morocco and the Spanish coast wager lately more by the introduction of the caches in instead of the powerful pneumatic boats in great length recreational craft and equipped with four or six outboard engines.