The Motril law courts have just found a volunteer from the Proteccion Civil guilty of retaining a parcel of drugs that he had found floating in the water off a beach. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, which is suspended.

The volunteer also has to pay all the court costs, as well as a 2,800-euro fine, which if does not pay, will land him in prison for 45 days.

The incident occurred at the end of July on a beach belonging to the municipality of Lújar. The volunteer, who was on beach watch, spotted the 30k package off the Playa de Cambriles. He opened it up, extracted two smaller packages from within, and then phoned the police to report the find.

The original article does not say how he was discovered, but evidently, discovered he was.

(News: Motril/Lujar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)