Madrid (EFE).- The National Police have dismantled the largest drug outlet in Cañada Real, with more than 500 daily customers, and which was run by the family clan of Los Saavedra, heirs to others such as Los Kikos or Los Gordos, in a macro operation that has resulted in 24 detainees.
The investigation was carried out for almost two years due to the strong security measures taken by the organization, whose point of sale, in sector VI of the town, was “totally bunkered”, as explained on Wednesday by the person in charge of the investigation. at the Madrid Police Headquarters.
More than 200 agents from different units, including the Special Operations Group (GEO), participated on March 23 in the exploitation phase of the operation, called Andromeda, which consisted of three simultaneous searches at the point of sale in the town and various homes in the towns of Morata de Tajuña and Alcalá de Henares.
Some 11 kilos of different narcotic substances -mainly cocaine and heroin-, more than 125,000 euros in cash, 10 firearms, almost 700 ammunition cartridges and 11 vehicles, some of them with “coves” -hidden spaces where they hid drugs- were seized. , money and weapons.
A fire in the “bunker”
The point of sale had a “labyrinth of armored doors” that protected the so-called “bunker”, the room where the sale of narcotic substances was carried out.
The agents began the search at 06:00 in the morning and upon entering the plot they came across the “smoking room”, a room with armchairs and sofas where they found about thirty customers consuming the doses they had purchased at the point of delivery. sale.
After going through the maze of doors, the policemen reached the “bunker”, where the sellers had already tried to get rid of the doses and cash by throwing them into a stove, which caused a fire in the cabin.
This forced the agents to collect from the ashes small amounts of drugs and charred bills with which to prove the involvement of the clan members in the crimes they are accused of.
The detainees had a huge estate of real estate and vehicles that did not match their jobs or income.
The 24 detainees – fourteen men and ten women – were handed over to the judicial authority as allegedly responsible for the crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, illegal possession of weapons, deposit of weapons and ammunition and a crime against public health. The judge ordered the entry into prison of 11 of those arrested.