Overview
- The joint Guardia Civil and customs operation, detailed Monday by Spanish authorities, seized 625 kilos of methamphetamine and led to five arrests, with lab work on the drug's purity still pending.
- Investigators flagged a shipment from Mexico on February 19 at Madrid–Barajas airport, confirmed narcotics in 36 containers labeled as coconut oil through customs lab tests, and then allowed a controlled delivery.
- Agents stored the load under watch in a unit in Arganda del Rey starting February 24 and tracked linked homes to map roles inside the network.
- After a 48‑hour push on March 5, officers detained five suspects and a judge ordered four into provisional prison, including a Mexican national known as “El Notario” who allegedly checked that deliveries matched the deal and was arrested after landing from Mexico.
- Spain has seen major meth cases before, including two in November 2019 that found 352 and 399 kilos hidden in marble blocks shipped from Mexico.