A Fishy Tale

Prosecutors are calling for six year jail terms for a six-strong group of men, some of whom were fishermen, who were involved in shipping vast quantities of hashish into Santa Pola. As reported by The Courier in March, the Guardia Civil and National Police monitored fourteen hundred kilos of the drug landing in the port and was then loaded into a van, which was then stopped in the Alicante area. The street value of the hashish was said to be worth two and a half million euros in one of the biggest hauls ever intercepted in Spain. High speed motor boats would set off from Morocco with the drugs on board, and then they were transferred to the trawlers off the Spanish coast who would then complete their journey at places like Santa Pola.