Border of Spain with Portugal, which connects Badajoz to Elvas. End of Spanish A-5 and beginning of A6
It was dismantled in Badajoz, next to the border of Portugal by Elvas, one of the largest laboratories of extraction, transformation and packing of cocaine in the region. Two Portuguese were arrested. The warning was given by PJ.
The Spain National Police, in collaboration with the Judicial Police (PJ), dismantled last week in Baouadoz, one of the largest cocaine laboratories in the region.
The detention took place on June 19, after an investigation that began with the alert given by the National PJ’s National Drugcient Trafficking Unit to the Spanish authorities, the Portuguese Police Communication Office advances.
The Judicial Police warned the Spanish authorities to “the possibility of a truck loaded with chemicals being able to enter Spanish territory through Badajoz ”, by A6 Portuguese, through the border by Elvas.
The two police then started a “discreet surveillance operation in the Highway A-5 [espanhola]”Where they located the truck entering the“ El Nevero ”industrial complex in Badajoz.
Ali, o truck discharged a “large amount of bidsWith chemicals, ”adds PJ, revealing that the suspects adopted“ extreme safety measures ”using different devices to avoid their geolocation.
However, the researchers were able to locate the place where the cocaine extraction, transformation and packaging laboratory worked.
In home searches, police found about 46 pounds of cocaine packed and ready to sell, as well as 20 pounds of cocaine in decantation process and more than a hundred bids with chemicals (acetone).
Frequency blockers, tracking detectors and various mobile phones were also found, as well as nine high range vehicles.
Os seven detainees, all menaged between 25 and 47 years, some with criminal records, were delivered to the competent judicial authority and was in pre -trial detention. Two are Portuguese.