ASdTorrevieja Information - tourist guide: Hash robbery among drug-trafficking gangs

Hash robbery among drug-trafficking gangs
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A. Michael on 17 March, 2010 01:13:00

1200 kilograms hash kept at a warehouse we stolen by a rival gang.

The Guardia Civil and the National Police have arrested in a joint operation 12
members of an organization specialized in the introduction of hash in the
Alicante’s area.
Investigations started in November 2009, when the Guardia Civil found in the
Vega Baja’s region a group made up of Spanish and Moroccan men who dealt with
drugs.
After several investigations, it was found out that the night of November 24,
2009, the organization managed to introduce through the Alicante’s coast 1200
kilograms of hash, a drug which was stolen afterwards at its storage place by a
rival gang.
After the goods were robbed, the drug dealers started to suspect from a Moroccan
man living in Formentera del Segura.
With the aim of recovering the stolen goods, the organization recruited a girl
who should have a date at a Torrevieja’s bar with the Moroccan suspect, which
took place by the middle of February.
At this very place two Spanish men, pretending to be agents of the Guardia
Civil, introduced the Moroccan man into a car and, after ting his hands and
hitting him, they took him to a countryside villa in Molina del Segura (Murcia).
At this villa, they kept on attacking the man and demanded his family, who lived
in Morocco, to pay one and a half million Euros to release him.
As one of his captors was not watching, the kidnapped man managed to escape and
asked for help in a house nearby, where the National Police of the city was
called.
The Guardia Civil and the National Police arrested 12 members implicated in
these facts.