
Members of an alleged, drug-trafficking ring in Dúrcal will stand trial this month and February.
On the 21st of last month the Guardia Civil entered marginal areas of Almuñécar in police vans, armed with submachine guns, looking for drugs and culprits.
Police operation, Capnella, carried out by the Guardia Civil and the Inland Revenue involved house searches in La Herradura and Almuñécar.
Four Guardia Civil police officers have been sentenced up to 14 years imprisonment, in one case, for their participation in a drugs ring in Sevilla.
Police swooped and arrested a gang of drugs smugglers – amongst them a Dutchmen – who operated smuggling large shipments of Marihuana from Granada to the Netherlands.
The Ministry of the Interior has suspended a Guardia Civil colonel, head of Internal Affairs after he was formally charged in a drugs case.