An operation between Spain, France and america managed to grab 2.7 tons of cocaine on a Venezuela-flagged fishing boat that had left this nation, with the arrest of ten alleged members of a Venezuelan drug trafficking gang.
The Spanish Police reported this Tuesday of this joint operation with the DEA, america company towards drug trafficking, and French Customs, which intercepted the ship in waters close to the Spanish islands of the Canary Islands, Atlantic.
The detainees are its ten crew members, “belonging to a Venezuelan cartel devoted to cocaine trafficking,” in response to a Police assertion.
The operation started firstly of 2024, when investigating this group that supposedly despatched vital portions of cocaine by fishing vessels, till discovering that it had ready speedboats to go to fulfill the vessel regarding 250 nautical miles from the Spanish island of Tenerife and transport the medicine to land.
“The mom ship had logistical issues and mightn’t attain the assembly, its crew members speaking that they wanted to return to restore it and replenish provides to return in eight or ten days,” in response to the assertion.
The Spanish Police requested the collaboration of the French authorities to intercept the fishing boat in a joint boarding, which resulted within the arrest of the ten crew members and the seizure of eighty bales with 2,700 kilos of cocaine.
🚩 Intercepted in waters close to #Canary Islands a fishing vessel carrying 2.7 tons of #cocaine
🤝Joint operation with the #DEA and French Customs
🔹The boat that had set sail from #Venezuela heading to the coasts 🇪🇸
🔹10 crew members detained pic.twitter.com/K0perNtHuE
— Nationwide Police (@policia) June 11, 2024
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2024-06-13 08:14:44
