Spanish police say they have dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after making a bust of 1.8 tons of the illegal drug. Spain’s National Police called it the largest confiscation of methamphetamines ever made in the country and the second largest in Europe.
A police officer stands by part of a haul of 1.8 tons of methamphetamine in Madrid, Spain , Thursday, May 16, 2024. Spanish police say they have dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after making a bust of 1.8 tons of the illegal drug. Part of a haul of 1.8 tons of methamphetamine is displayed in Madrid, Spain , Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Police said they made five arrests — a Mexican national whom police identified as the group’s leader, as well as three Spanish people and one Romanian — and raided six properties in the eastern region of Valencia. Officer Antonio Martínez celebrated the “eradication of this group,” which police believed was trying to establish a presense in Spain.
According to Martínez, the group used houses in isolated areas in the Valencia region to store the smuggled shipments of methamphetamines before using vehicles with false bottoms to send them on to other European countries. “We in the National Police thought that the Mexican cartels were not established in Spain,” Martínez said. “But it is true that due to the pressure they are under in other parts of Europe, above all against their laboratories, we are seeing how they are trying to start operations or set up illegal laboratories in Spain to produce drugs.”
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