Gun Trafficking Ring Supplying Drug Gangs Busted in Alicante and Murcia

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No one is interested in stealing a marijuana plantation, until the time comes to harvest or to move the bags with the buds. The growth of these plantations in Spain, persecuted by law, and the need to protect them, has opened a market that a criminal organization in Murcia was willing to attend. The group, disarmed by the Civil Guard in mid-May, was in charge of providing weapons for those moments of maximum tension, in which drug traffickers pl…

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Operation Resolute in which the Civil Guard has succeeded in dismantling a criminal organization that distributed weapons of war from Murcia to narcos in the province of Cadiz has also carried out house searches in Jerez, in addition to Alicante, Murcia and other Gaditan localities. [articles:336028] In a house near the park of La Milagrosa has been found an arsenal of war. Eleven weapons along with 897 metal cartridges of different calibres (24…

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Guns were being diverted from the legal market to the illegal market through testaferros who falsely denounced their theft or loss There are 18 people arrested and six charged in 16 registers in Murcia, Alicante and Cadiz, where several firearms have been seized.

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The Guardia Civil has dismantled a criminal organization dedicated to the trafficking of arms to groups of drug traffickers. Located in Murcia and with branches in different parts of southern Spain, they supplied arms to drug traffickers to guard warehouses and marijuana plantations before possible overturns of other groups. 18 people have been arrested and six others have been charged in the 16 records carried out in Murcia, Alicante and Cadiz.…