The drug dealers controlled Straits Police with a radar and

The drug dealers controlled Straits Police with a radar and thermal imaging camera from a Chipiona attic

In an attic in Chipiona (Cádiz), the National Police and the Customs Surveillance Service have located an operational radar and thermal imaging camera of military origin, which a gang of drug traffickers used to control every step of the security forces into the strait, in order to introduce quantities of hashish without major problems. Operation Saline has revealed how, despite heavy coastal surveillance, the gliders were able to easily avoid police, guards and customs officials and slip into the Guadalete River until they docked unnoticed in the drug nurseries of El Puerto de Santa Maria . A total of 10 people were arrested and seized 3,120 grams of hashish and another radar that the detainees allegedly planned to install elsewhere on the coast to be more efficient.

The operation began in April 2022 after several boats were discovered docked in Guadalete and others stored in industrial warehouses, “all with clear indications that they were used for narcotics trafficking,” as reported by the National Police this morning Explanation. In the same phase, a half-sunken boat with 29 bales of hash was found near the mouth. In the second phase, 75 bundles of the same drug and two inflatable boats were seized. These two hits were dealt on August 8th and November 1st and hit an accumulated cache of more than three tons of hash.

Subsequent investigations led to the arrest of seven people and searches of buildings and homes in El Puerto de Santa María, Jerez de la Frontera and Chipiona. During one of those searches, police found “a complete, operational, and working radar installed in an attic in the city of Chipiona” that the drug traffickers were using “to monitor anti-drug trafficking services ships and planes.” . It is a Simrad brand device, as is commonly installed in leisure boats, which can cost between 8,000 and 2,500 euros depending on the model. The gang had been making full use of a military-origin thermal imaging camera, which they “monitored the actions of police forces patrol boats,” the note said.

Those in charge of the radar could control all coastal movements from the living room, with access to the terrace with excellent views of the sea as it is beachfront. Police assert that the gang already had a second radar in their possession, in this case made by B&G, which is due to be installed shortly in a new location to maximize surveillance of the strait. Three other people were arrested in this final phase of the operation in Jerez de la Frontera.

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