Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE) Of the investigation.
In this joint operation of the Customs Surveillance Service, the Police and the Civil Guard, four people have also been arrested: the two crew members of each of the two yachts.
The sources have specified that one of the sailboats was loaded with 600 kilos of cocaine and the other, with 539 kilos.
Both were boarded on the high seas by the special operations ship of Customs Surveillance “Fulmar”, which has escorted them to the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where they arrived on Tuesday around 10:00 a.m. and where they have been registered by an important device police.
With this new operation, since the beginning of 2023, the Spanish security forces have intercepted cocaine shipments in the Atlantic from the Canary Islands totaling 12.6 tons: 4,500 kilos on board the merchant ship “Blume”, 2,500 kilos on the sailboat “Mambo”, 4,500 kilos in the cattle transport ship “Orion”, and 1,139 kilos in the two new sailboats, with a total of 51 detainees. EFE