Burgos (EFE) a price on the black market more than 1.6 million euros.
Commander José Manuel González Garrido has highlighted the importance of the operation because Burgos is usually a transit province for drugs but, on this occasion, it was about drugs destined for retail sale in the province of Burgos.
It has considered that an organized group that would have put a significant amount of drugs on the streets in the regions of Juarros, Merindades, La Demanda and Alfoz de Burgos has been dismantled.
In the searches of homes and storage rooms, the agents have seized almost seven kilos of cocaine, valued at more than one and a half million euros and various amounts of hashish, marijuana and MDMA, in addition to just over 18,000 euros in cash and four vehicles.
The Government delegate in Castilla y León, Virginia Barcones, has insisted on the complexity of this operation, which began to be developed six months ago and has involved Civil Guard units from Burgos with the support of others from León, Valladolid and Madrid. .
Captain Martín Ortega, who has coordinated the operation, has detailed that in some of the registered homes there were minors, for which reason the Minor Women’s unit (EMUME) of the Civil Guard also had to intervene. EFE