An group that equipped weapons, bullets and a launcher to prison teams from a city in Almería | Spain | EUROtoday

The little greater than 4,500 inhabitants of Pechina, a small city north of town of Almería, have been revolutionized final Tuesday. In its streets there have been 400 brokers of the National Police and Civil Guard. They had by no means lived one thing like that. No one knew what was taking place, however some smelled it, as a result of marijuana all the time leaves a hint. The large deployment not solely investigated crops within the fifty information made by the brokers. They additionally sought revolvers, subfusiles and shotguns. And they discovered them. Until 16, together with a rocket launcher, along with an arsenal of bullets. This Friday the police have supplied the steadiness of an operation that culminated with 25 detained individuals belonging to a band that cultivated marijuana – 5,700 vegetation have been seized – and, on the identical time, equipped firearms to different prison teams. Of these, 17 are already in jail, in response to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA).

The path that led the researchers to Pechina began in 2022. That 12 months totally different operations in opposition to drug trafficking in Andalusia had a standard level: they all the time have been quick and lengthy lengthy high quality and really related weapons. They all appeared, had the identical producers and an identical packaging types. The specialists started to suspect that there was a single provider for all of the disjointed bands. And after the primary police efforts, all the things pointed to the small Almeria city.

The group was led by a 35 -year -old man and Spanish nationality, who acquired firearms and their ammunition in several international locations in Europe. Then, he attended the requests of different prison teams – the overwhelming majority settled on the Andalusian coasts – because of the inventory that was storing in several areas of the city. Therefore, throughout the police operation, 5 quick weapons, 10 lengthy weapons and a launcher, along with ballistic vests, chargers and hundreds of ammunition cartridges of various calibers have been intervened.

The group had a parallel department devoted to marijuana cultivation. They had at the least 21 vegetation underneath ceiling wherein virtually 5,700 vegetation have been discovered, which is nearly half ton, along with 25 kilos of buds. The members themselves carried out the cultivation and processing of the specimens, which later additionally despatched their purchasers. Finally, there was a construction near the chief that was devoted to bleaching “the large benefits obtained with these illegal activities,” in response to a press release from the National Police.

After understanding their types of work and figuring out the members of the group, final Tuesday a broad police machine was held in Pechina with the participation of 400 National Police brokers – teams such because the GEO, GOES or the UIP, along with the Organized Drug and Crime Unit (UDYCO) of the Provincial Commission of Almería, which has directed the operation – and Civil Guard. They arrived on the city nonetheless at night time and all through the day they made 49 information within the space of ​​the Las Cuevas neighborhood. There, along with weapons and medicines, 80,000 euros have been intervened in money, cryptoactives, documentation, 12 excessive -end automobiles and digital gadgets. They additionally dismantled 155 fraudulent hooks to the electrical energy grid.

The double police operation – the National Police directed one and the Civil Guard one other, in parallel – culminated within the arrest of 25 individuals within the city, two extra in Cádiz and a 3rd in Teià (Barcelona). They all accepted their proper to not declare and, from them, 17 have been despatched to provisional jail, communicated and with out bail after being made out there to the Court of Instruction quantity 2 of Almería, which maintains the judicial proceedings underneath abstract secret. According to the TSJA, they’re investigated for the alleged crimes in opposition to public well being with aggravating one in every of infamous significance, illicit possession of weapons, fraud of electrical fluid, cash laundering and belonging to prison group. Police don’t rule out new arrests as a result of “the investigation is still open,” as reported by the Government Subdelegate in Almería, José María Martín.