Spanish police dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after seizing 1.8 tons of the illegal drug, police reported Thursday.
Spain’s National Police called it the largest methamphetamine seizure ever made in the country.
Police said they arrested five people — a Mexican national whom police identified as the leader of the group, as well as three Spaniards and a Romanian — and raided six properties in the eastern region of Valencia.
Police believe the group was trying to establish itself in Spain.
“We have achieved the eradication of this group that was incipient,” declared agent Antonio Martínez.
According to Martínez, the group used houses in isolated areas of the Valencian Community to store shipments of smuggled methamphetamine before using double-bottomed vehicles to send them to other European countries.
“We from the National Police think that the Mexican organizations are not based in Spain,” Martínez added. “But it is true that due to the pressure that is being put on the laboratories in other parts of Europe, we see how they are trying to carry out “the implementation or creation of illegal laboratories in Spain for the production of drugs.”
The investigation continues and police said there could be more arrests.
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