Logroño/Vitoria (EFE) in La Rioja when I was going to Vitoria.
Within the “Eikel” operation, the Benemérita has arrested two men in Vitoria and investigated a third. They are suspected of two crimes against public health for drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal group.
Apparently the three were in charge of receiving a shipment of cocaine from Colombia through a “mule” or “human mail.”
The investigation began on April 24, when the agents received notice of the death of a 21-year-old young man at the Santo Domingo de la Calzada health center (La Rioja).
The toilets could not do anything to save his life because two of the capsules he had ingested burst inside his stomach and caused his death.
The corpse was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of La Rioja, in Logroño. There an autopsy was performed, which found that he had 93 high-purity cocaine capsules in his stomach.
Abandoned without documentation
Investigators identified the three people who took the victim to the doctor’s office. There, they abandoned her without any documentation.
Apparently the three suspects had traveled to the Barajas airport on April 24 to pick up the young man, who was traveling from Colombia to Spain with a stomach full of cocaine capsules.
Once he landed, they put him in a vehicle to continue the trip to Vitoria. In this city they planned to extract the drug capsules for their adulteration and distribution.
During the journey they stopped in the Rioja town of Santurde to rest. At that moment the victim suddenly and unexpectedly began to feel bad. Faced with this situation, they took her documentation and left her at the aforementioned health center.
After obtaining the full identity of the deceased, the investigators were able to establish the itinerary followed until his arrival in Spain, as well as the vehicle in which he had traveled from Madrid to La Rioja.
Vitoria, the destination of the drug
The investigations made it possible to determine that the destination of the narcotic substance was Euskadi, specifically Vitoria. Two of the people who had abandoned the victim were hiding in the Álava capital.
In Vitoria, the Civil Guard made the two arrests and made two entries and searches at the homes of the two detainees.
With the seized drug, once adulterated and before its release on the market, a total of 13,069 doses could have been produced, valued at 274,455 euros.
The operation was carried out by the Anti-Drug Organized Crime Team (EDOA) of the Civil Guard in La Rioja and agents from the Rural Action Group (GAR) participated.+
The proceedings and the detainees were made available to Haro’s Investigating Court number 2 and the judicial authority has ordered the admission of the two detainees to prison.