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Spanish Police Dismantle Valladolid Drug Ring and Arrest Seven in Violent Roquetas de Mar Case

The paired operations signal a wider clampdown on street sales linked to forced drugging.

Overview

  • Guardia Civil in Roquetas de Mar arrested seven people accused of holding a man for 13 days, drugging him to break his will, and stealing about €40,000 from his accounts.
  • Home searches in Roquetas found doses of amphetamine and cocaine base, capsules of methadone and trazodone, an air gun, an expandable baton, large knives, and property identified as stolen.
  • Investigators are pursuing charges that include membership in a criminal group, unlawful detention, drug trafficking, robbery with violence, and money laundering, and the probe remains open to find more suspects and owners of recovered items.
  • In Valladolid, a joint National Police and Civil Guard operation broke up a retail network that used apartments, storage rooms, and counter-surveillance tactics, leading to five arrests.
  • Police in Valladolid seized 16 kilograms of hashish and smaller amounts of other drugs, courts jailed two suspects and released the others under conditions, and officials valued the narcotics at €106,666 using Spain’s O.C.N.E. tables.