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Irishman arrested with 18 kilos of drugs at Alicante airport

If you bet on something that could go wrong, you could lose. This happened recently to an Irish passenger who was going to fly from Alicante-Elche airport to Liverpool in the UK. He thought that no one would find out that he had 18 kg of hashish in his checked luggage, but they did. The Civil Guard caught him after private security guards found the drug in the luggage when they ran it through an X-ray machine. The 36-year-old suspect was freed on bail after being taken to the Elche duty court, where his lawyer, Jorge Martínez Navas, helped him.

The Irish tourist was caught at the Alicante-Elche airport at the end of January. The Guardia Civil’s Fiscal and Border Analysis and Investigation Unit (UDAIFF) was notified by the luggage check service on 25 January in the afternoon. People working as private security at the airport said that when a bag went through an X-ray machine, they saw that it might have something illegal inside.

An X-ray was done on the suitcase

The suitcase was taken to the airport’s baggage claim area, where the Guardia Civil looked at it again with an X-ray machine and found some things that looked like acorns, which made them think it might contain drugs.

After that, the Guardia Civil moved to find the passenger whose bag it was. He was caught at one of the boarding gates, just as he was about to get on a Ryanair flight to Liverpool. The cops introduced themselves to the passenger and asked him to come with them to check his bags.

The Irish citizen willingly went with the Civil Guard, and the suitcase was opened while he was there. Along with shoes and clothes, they found several vacuum-sealed bags inside that were full of drug nuts. The bags were weighed by the Civil Guard, who found that they held just over 18 kilogrammes of hashish. The drugs were sent to the Health Department of the Government Subdelegation in Alicante without their plastic wrappers so that they could be analysed and weighed.

The Civil Guard believe he is responsible for drug trafficking and smuggling. The 36-year-old Irish man who was arrested was helped by his lawyer Jorge Martínez Navas. He used his right not to give a statement at both the Civil Guard facilities and the duty court in Elche, which let him go with the condition that he show up in court every fifteen days.

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21 expensive cars that were stolen in the U.S. were found Valencia port

Together with the US Container Security Initiative, the Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency found 21 high-end cars that were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to Africa in the port of Valencia. The cars, which were worth a total of €1.1 million, were reported stolen and were being moved in containers.

The cars were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to different places in Africa, stopping in Valencia’s port. Risk analysis units made up of Guardia Civil and Tax Agency officers were able to find several packages that might not have had the goods that were claimed to have been inside.

With the help of the information gathered, it was confirmed that stolen cars that had been in Valencia on their way to the United States had actually arrived. The groups that ship stolen cars either traded legally declared cars for stolen ones or directly declared the stolen cars as other goods, like furniture or mattresses.

In the past few weeks, 21 vehicles have been found and will be sent back to their home countries to be given to their original owners.

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14 immigrants were saved on a boat 45 miles off the coast of Alicante

On Wednesday, 2nd April, the Maritime Rescue ship Salvamar Leo saved 14 immigrants who were travelling in a boat about 45 miles from Alicante.

In the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday, Maritime Rescue sent out its Helimer 223 helicopter and the Salvamar Leo, which is based in Alicante, to save the people on a small boat.

Their journey began on the Salvamar Leo, which took them to the Temporary Assistance Centre for Foreigners in the port of Alicante. There, the Red Cross took care of them.

The Red Cross says that all of the refugees they saved were men, and two of them were younger than 15 years old. They were all healthy after being treated.

The National Police took over the refugees after getting help from the Red Cross. They are now trying to find the boat’s captain so they can arrest him, as is normal in these situations.

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Dénia wrestler arrested in connection with a network that smuggled 300 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador

The National Police’s Drugs and Organised Crime Unit arrested a famous mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter from Dénia. He was part of a gang that was partly broken up in August over a shipment of 300 kg of cocaine from Ecuador that came into the port of Valencia. The fighter from Dénia is one of five people who were caught by police. Along with nine other gang members who were already in jail at the time, they are now in jail.

The man who was arrested in Dénia is thought to be the trusted man of the gang’s leader, who is also an MMA fighter, and the person who is said to have worked as a go-between in the operation.

Levante-EMV also says that the broken-down network is linked to another shipment of 490 kg of cocaine that came into the port of Valencia in April of last year.

The five people who were just caught went before Valencia’s Investigative Court No. 20 yesterday, April 3rd.