7 h. ago Spanish police break up gang that used swimmers to hide cocaine on ships

Almost 2.5 tonnes of narcotic seized and 30 people arrested after 15-month investigation into drug-smuggling network Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco-submarines, say Spanish policeSpanish police have arrested 30 people and seized almost 2.5 tonnes of cocaine after breaking up a criminal network that used teams of young swimmers to hide the drugs on moving, Europe-bound ships which were then attacked and relieved of their unwitting cargo before reaching port.The 15-month investigation began in October 2024 when Policía Nacional officers found 88kg of cocaine in a vehicle in the southern Spanish town of Mijas. The drugs led them to three gangs, including a Balkan cartel, who were working together to bring huge quantities of cocaine into Spain from Colombia. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Passenger jet is surrounded by cops at Barcelona airport amid 'on board threat' alert after it was 'escorted by warplanes' over the Med

Spanish police have surrounded a passenger plane that landed at a Barcelona airport today amid an 'onboard threat'.

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63 h. ago Spanish police seize 10 tonnes of cocaine in record haul at sea

Spanish police seized almost 10 metric tonnes of cocaine in their largest-ever haul of the drug on the high seas.

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3 d. ago Spanish police seize 10 tonnes of cocaine hidden in ship off Canary Islands

Haul represents country’s largest seizure at sea, with officers digging bales out from vast amount of saltSpanish police have made their largest-ever seizure of cocaine at sea after finding almost 10 tonnes of the drug hidden among a cargo of salt on a merchant ship off the Canary Islands.Detectives and anti-drug prosecutors investigating a multinational criminal group alleged to be exporting “enormous quantities” of cocaine from South America to Europe had identified a suspect ship that had set off from Brazil, the Policía Nacional said in a statement on Monday. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Police seize record 10 tonnes of cocaine hidden in salt shipment

Spanish police have made their largest-ever cocaine seizure on the high seas

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1 week ago Brit man shot in car park assassination bid at Spanish getaway is named by police

Sonny Redmond, 32, was shot in the arm, leg and chest when more than a dozen bullets were sprayed at his vehicle in an underground garage — after allegedly carrying out a robbery at a cannabis club in Spain

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2 w. ago Aston Villa fan is taken off EasyJet flight by Spanish cops after 'drinking cans of Stella and shouting about Birmingham'

An Aston Villa fan was taken off an EasyJet flight by Spanish police amid claims from passengers he was 'drinking cans of Stella while shouting about Birmingham'.

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3 w. ago Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco

Previously vessels would be sunk once they had completed their cargo runs from South America to EuropeThe plummeting price of cocaine is forcing drug-traffickers to reuse the “narco-submarines” they would previously have scuttled once the custom-built vessels had completed their cargo runs from South America to Europe, according to a senior Spanish police officer.While semi-submersible vehicles have been used regularly in Colombia and other parts of South and Central America since the 1980s, they were not detected in European waters until 2006, when an abandoned sub was found in an estuary in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago London burglary gang locked up for 57 years after 'relentless' break

London burglary gang locked up for 57 years after 'relentless' break-ins across South East  My London

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4 w. ago Spanish police search laboratory in African swine fever leak fears

African swine fever, while harmless to humans, is often fatal to pigs and wild boars

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4 w. ago Spanish police evict hundreds of migrants from squat deemed a safety hazard

Spanish police have begun carrying out eviction orders to clear an abandoned school building where hundreds of mostly undocumented migrants were living in a squat north of Barcelona

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