Castellar heroin ring busted

CASTELLAR (Agencies / Photo: from Guardia Civil video) A drug specialising in heroin traffic and based in Castellar was busted yesterday, according to a press release from the Guardia Civil. With ramifications in Algeciras, La Línea and San Roque, as well as in Madrid and Palma de Mallorca, Operation Almenara concluded with the arrest of eight people, confiscation of 814 grammes of heroin, other drugs, cash, computers, mobile phones and arms. The gang had been under watch, in an operation headed by the GC in Algeciras, since December but it was only in April that a man of North African origin was seen arriving from Madrid by bus and being handed a parcel of the drug. He was arrested at the Algeciras bus station. (See the full story on CampoPulse)

Lidl bananas contained cocaine

(Agencies) One hundred kilos of cocaine were found in boxes containing bananas, when they were opened by Lidl supermarket staff in Madrid, Cáceres and Plasencia. According to National Police sources, the cocaine 'bricks' were found at the first of the branches in several boxes that had been delivered to the stores from Mercamadrid, the central produce market. The staff called the police, and further investigation located similar lots of bananas at other Lidl stores in Madrid -at least six- and at Cáceres and Plasencia. A police statement said that the> (Read more on CampoPulse)