Alicante Airport Drugs Find Brings Down Murcia Distribution Network

The Guardia Civil, in conjunction with the Tax Agency, intercepted a package with 525 grams of cocaine at Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernandez Airport.

Operation ‘Limose24’, carried out within the National Plan against Drug Trafficking and Consumption, resulted in the dismantling of a criminal group that operated between South America and Europe, dedicated to cocaine trafficking.

The operation began after the detection at Alicante airport, under the functional dependence of the Customs Administrator, of a package with 525 grams of cocaine, hidden in the interior walls of a box intended for the province of Murcia.

Based on this discovery, the support of the Organised Crime and Anti-Drug Team (EDOA) of the Alicante Command was requested, launching an exhaustive investigation.

Once the evidence was collected, the investigators were able to determine the way the members of the organisation worked, discovering that there were members of an international distribution company, where personal data was collected and provided to the criminal group, using it to hide the true identities of those responsible.

In addition, the criminal group had changed the name of one of its companies to another person’s name to be able to work legally as parcel delivery people in Murcia. Using this apparently legal activity, they organised delivery routes with several national companies, but diverted the drug packages for their own benefit.

At the end of July, after collecting sufficient data and with judicial authorisation, the agents carried out an operation to carry out the controlled delivery of the seized package, achieving the arrest in the province of Murcia of four men, between 39 and 60 years, two of them of Spanish nationality and two other Colombians.

The detainees, who are charged with the crimes of drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal group, have been placed at the disposal of the Investigative Court No. 2 of Elche, who ordered their imprisonment.

Finally, on August 8, investigators arrested a 40-year-old woman of Colombian nationality, also linked to the group, who has been released after being charged with the crimes.