Spanish police dismantled this Thursday a major drug trafficking network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, after seizing 1.8 tons of methamphetamines, which operated from Tenerife, Madrid, Valencia and Alicante in Spain.
The National Police considered this to be the largest ever seizure of methamphetamines in the country, reports the Associated Press (AP).
Following the police action, five people were arrested, a Mexican citizen – who was identified as the leader of the group – three men of Spanish nationality and a Romanian.
Officer Antonio Martínez celebrated the “eradication of this group”, at a time when the police believed that the cartel was trying to establish a presence in Spain.
It seems that the group used houses in isolated areas to store shipments of smuggled methamphetamines and then put the drugs in vehicles with false bottoms to send them to other European countries.
“At the National Police we thought that the Mexican cartels were not established in Spain, but because of the pressure they are under in other parts of Europe, we are seeing how they are trying to start operations or set up illegal laboratories in Spain to produce drugs,” Martínez said.
The investigation is still ongoing, with the Spanish authorities saying that more arrests could be made.
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