Gang using helicopters to smuggle drugs busted in Spain in rare operation against aerial trafficking

900 kilos by helicopter: blow to network that transported hashish from Morocco to Malaga province

The Guardia Civil have arrested six people and intercepted 657 kilos of hashish and five firearms, as well as one of the helicopters used for drug-trafficking between Morocco and southern Spain

Gang using helicopters to smuggle drugs busted in Spain in rare operation against aerial trafficking

Police seized one of the helicopters, 1,448 pounds of hashish, five firearms, cash and vehicles during raids.

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Guardia Civil dismantle drug gang using helicopter to smuggle in hashish from Morocco

Spain’s Guardia Civil police on Saturday said they had dismantled a criminal gang that flew helicopters to smuggle hashish into the country from Morocco, in a rare operation against aerial drug trafficking. The helicopters, capable of transporting between 500 and 900 kg of drugs, flew across the Mediterranean to southern Spain, landing in sparsely populated areas of the province of Almeria, where several people were waiting to unload the hashish…