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Man caught hiding 36 packets of cannabis inside his body

When police questioned a man seen making a drug deal, they were surprised to find they needed the help of a doctor to retrieve his stash from where it was hidden.

Published: 23 March 2016 16:52 CET
Man caught hiding 36 packets of cannabis inside his body
Archive photo of hash capsules. Photo: Spanish Guardia Civil.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, police in Córdoba observed one man apparently giving a bag to another man in what appeared to be a drug trade, according to local newspaper Diario Córdoba.

The men tried to run away from the police in different directions, but officers were able to catch up to one of them. 

When they questioned the man, who had a record of drug crimes, they noticed that he was acting in an anxious and evasive manner. He then told police that he needed to go to a medical centre because he was carrying about 40 plastic cases of hashish inside his body and his health was at great risk.

The man was then transferred to a clinic, where doctors found that there were foreign objects inside his digestive tract.

In total, doctors removed 36 plastic capsules of hashish weighing about 360 grams.

The man was arrested for a crime against public health.

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Spain seizes 1.8 tonnes of Sinaloa Cartel’s crystal meth

Spanish police said Thursday they had seized 1,800 kilos of crystal meth that Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel was trying to sell in Europe, the country's "biggest-ever seizure" of the narcotic.

Published: 16 May 2024 17:07 CEST
Spain seizes 1.8 tonnes of Sinaloa Cartel's crystal meth

Police arrested five people during the raid in the eastern Alicante province, one of them a Mexican running the cartel’s Spanish operation, a statement said.

“This is the biggest-ever seizure of crystal meth in Spain and the second largest in Europe,” Antonio Martinez Duarte, head of the police’s drug trafficking and organised crime unit, told reporters.

“Among those arrested is a Mexican citizen linked to the Sinaloa Cartel,” he added.

READ ALSO: What are the penalties for drug possession in Spain?

He did not give his name but indicated the suspect was responsible for receiving the narcotics in Spain then distributing them within Europe.

The Sinaloa Cartel is one of Mexico’s oldest, largest and most violent criminal groups whose influence remains strong despite the arrest of its founder Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman and his son.

Both have been extradited to and jailed in the United States.

During the operation, police also detained three Spaniards and a Romanian, seizing five cars, documents, a weapon and cash.

But police believe it was a one-off trafficking operation and that “Mexican organisations are not permanently based” in Spain, Martinez Duarte said.

“These organisations send a trusted person who carries out the operation in line with their interests” and once that is over, he goes back home, he explained.

The seized narcotics had been due to be shipped to central Europe.

Although Spain is one of the main drug gateways to Europe, seizures of synthetic narcotics are uncommon as most traffickers usually deal in cannabis and cocaine.

READ ALSO: Why is Spain’s Europe’s cocaine gateway?

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