The Interior Ministry released news on Monday of a National Police operation, ‘Operación Pantano’, which has broken up an international network of drug traffickers and has arrested 15 suspects and seized 3.5 kilos of cocaine. Nine of the detainees are from Colombia and the remainder are Spanish.
The group was mainly based in Almería province and obtained its supplies of cocaine either from Madrid or directly from Colombia. The drugs were then distributed within Almería and in the south of neighbouring Granada.
The final arrests in the case were at the end of November when the network’s two main leaders were taken into custody. The police operation has also seized five top-range vehicles, 24,000 € in cash, eight sets of precision weighing scales and a pen gun with ammunition.
