11 people arrested for belonging to a criminal organization related to heroin trafficking
Joint operation of the Civil Guard and the National Police
An important group that prepared vehicles with highly sophisticated and undetectable coves in Madrid is dismantled in Madrid
The work of the drug-detecting dogs was essential to find part of the drug that was buried between dirt and mud at a depth of 1.50 meters.
The Civil Guard and the National Police in the framework of the Fireball-Kazino operation have arrested 11 people related to the trafficking of heroin, of various nationalities, 4 searches have been made at the homes of Illa, Vigo, Carballo and Madrid as well as a Industrial building in Humanes (Madrid). 20 kilos of heroin, 40,000 Euros in cash, 11 vehicles, 1 shotgun and 1 simulated weapon, vacuum packaging machinery and numerous telephones and computers have been seized.
The Operation began in the middle of January 2019, when there was evidence of a significant rebound in the sale of narcotic substances in the town of Carballo in Coruña. The Civil Guard of A Coruña, focused its investigation in Goians, controlling a domicile where a couple resided both with numerous antecedents for drug trafficking.
After maintaining an exhaustive control over this domicile, the agents detected several visits made, with numerous security measures by an individual of Albanian nationality, who had recently left prison and was known by investigators as he had been arrested by the Civil Guard in the past 2017.
It was possible to find out that this individual was settled in the Illa de Arousa, which did not perform any type of paid activity, and made use of various high-end cars. This was related to different people closely linked to drug trafficking.
In this way, it was possible to detect the close relationship with another individual with a history of drug trafficking, who made numerous trips to Madrid.
The Center for Intelligence against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) informed the investigators of the coincidence with another investigation on this same individual by the National Police, coordinating the investigations of both bodies and working together.
The organization had a leader, of Albanian origin, who was in charge of establishing contacts with the various buyers in the Galician Community, as well as conducting the corresponding negotiations.
This criminal organization maintained a high level of sophistication and rigorous security measures in its meetings, movements and communications between them. They had a clandestine workshop located in the Madrid polygon of Humanes where the vehicles used for the commission of the crimes spent several months inside this ship where they were transformed installed in its body and interior of the same sophisticated large, covered rooms of lead and impossible to detect, before an eventual police control where to hide the drug.
When these vehicles were prepared for transport, they were re-enrolled with license plates from Romania and delivered to the people who were in charge of making long trips on board them to various countries in Europe, mainly the Netherlands where they were loaded and returned again. to Spain.
These vehicles sometimes came directly to Galicia, and on other occasions, they went to the underground ship in Madrid, where the drug was transferred to other vehicles and transported to Galician lands.
Buried heroine
In Galicia they hid the heroin games coming from Madrid, in wooded areas of difficult access, buried at various points to hinder their discovery.
Before proceeding with a delivery of heroin to any of its habitual buyers, the members of this band went to the aforementioned forested areas, taking exhaustive security measures, to dig up the amount that they had requested. They always began the march with two vehicles making one of them of shuttle to detect possible police controls.
Last January, the agents in charge of the investigation detected one of the cars prepared on the Madrid ship, returning to Spain from the Netherlands, starting its follow-up to the city of Pontevedra in Vigo where it was intercepted, finding in the same hidden in a large cabin in the basement of the vehicle, 10.5 kilograms of heroin.
As a result of this fact, 11 arrests and 4 searches were made in homes, as well as the clandestine workshop located in Madrid, not ruling out new arrests.
Numerous doses of heroin and cocaine ready for sale were found in the single-family home in Carballo, 35,000 euros, a shotgun with ammunition and with the barrel cut and a simulated short weapon.
On the outside farm of the house, the drug detecting dogs of both Bodies located a specific place where drugs could have been hidden. After digging and he agents located at a depth of 1.50 meters a large bag that contained perfectly waterproofed more than 9.5 kilograms of heroin packed in the same way as those seized days before inside the vehicle in Vigo.
To the intervened effects are added 62 grams of heroin and 93 grams of cocaine prepared for immediate sale to consumers.
The operation has been coordinated by the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Villagarcía, and has been developed by agents of the Organized Crime and Anti-Drug Team of the Civil Guard Command of A Coruña, and of Group XXIII of the Central Narcotics Brigade of The National Police
