In a 14-month investigation, police seized over 150 kg cannabis and marijuana, $1,61,537 in money and arrested eight individuals. (Picture for illustration: Reuters)
Three drones, together with one made out of a surfboard, had been discovered together with six massive flying drones in a number of warehouses close to the port metropolis of Cadiz
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Spanish police have seized semi-submersible drones utilized by drug traffickers to ship narcotics throughout the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, the inside ministry stated on Tuesday, the primary time such purpose-made gadgets have been found in Spain.
Three drones, together with one made out of a surfboard, had been discovered together with six massive flying drones in a number of warehouses close to the port metropolis of Cadiz, stated Juan Antonio Siloleo, head of the central narcotics brigade.
The ocean-borne gadgets had been designed to journey 30 km carrying as much as 200 kg of marijuana and cannabis. “The navigation of those gadgets was completed remotely through GPS, in order that an individual or a member of the group might examine the situation at any time after which organize the docking from residence with a pill and the appropriate software program,” Siloleo stated.
The investigation lasted 14 months and allowed police to grab over 150 kg of cannabis and marijuana, $1,61,537 in money and arrest eight individuals in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the northern coast of Morocco, and within the southern Spanish cities of Cadiz and Malaga. Police additionally discovered automobiles with hidden compartments to take the medicine up north so far as Denmark.
There are a lot of teams of drug traffickers and folks smugglers working within the space across the Straits of Gibraltar separating from Africa, which is as slender as 12 km in some locations.
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