Overview
- Guardia Civil at Valencia’s Manises Airport stopped the pair as they prepared to board a Birmingham flight late last Thursday.
- Officers scanned two checked suitcases and found 23 packages and tablets holding 42 kilograms of a white substance that field-tested as cocaine.
- The women, reported as 47 and 19, appeared before the examining magistrate in Quart de Poblet and were remanded to custody without bail.
- Investigators opened a provisional case for an offense against public health, and formal lab analysis and an official police statement are still pending.
- Regional reports link the seizure to a pattern of recent drug arrests involving British travelers in Spain, reflecting tight luggage screening during holiday travel.