The younger drug runners that man the refuelling RIBs (petaqueo) for filling up the drug-carrying ones for their return trip, are boasting on TikTok and belittling the efforts of the Guardia Civil and Coast Guards.
We covered recently the disastrous, illegal-immigrant landing on the 15th, that brought with it bodies being washed up in Castell de Ferro and Baños (Polopos).
This is the problem for the Guardia Civil concerning the high-speed RIBs used for transporting drugs, people, as well as being used as floating gasolineras.
The Guardia Civil came across a parked van last weekend, loaded with 1,500 litres of gasoline near a beach in Los Yesos, which is a municipal dependency of Sorvilán.
Two men were arrested trying to unload and lauch a brand-new, high-speed, RIB, destined for running drugs from coast to coast.
The Guardia Civil have praised the beach users who helped trap two drug runners on Playa Melicena as they tried to elude capture by the police.
A Guardia Civil launch cornered and chased a narco launch onto a beach in Melicena and one of the drug runners was brought down by bathers on the beach.
The Guardia Civil maritime service intercepted a RIB 1.5km south of la Rábita with 16 packages containing a total of 560 kilos of hashish.
If it’s not nailed down, somebody will find a way to steal it, be it your mobile or your car… but a helicopter belonging to fire fighters?
The Policía Nacional discovered a Whatsapp group dedicated to laying traps for the police and attacking them when they appear.