Guardia Civil officer jailed after 40kg of cocaine found in his car
A Guardia Civil officer has been sentenced to six years in prison after admitting he transported 40 kilos of cocaine from Cádiz to the Canary Islands. His wife has been given a two-year sentence for helping him.
The pair were travelling on the Ciudad de Valencia ferry operated by Naviera Armas when they were stopped at the Nelson Mandela dock in the Puerto de Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
Officers searched their rented Peugeot 5008 and found more than 40 kilos of cocaine hidden in a suitcase in the boot and under the back seats. The drugs were 82% pure and worth an estimated €1.39 million.
How the operation worked
The case was handled by the Audiencia Provincial de Las Palmas, where both the officer and his wife admitted what they had done. A third man, A.M.H.G., has been jailed for four years, six months and one day.
He supplied the cocaine in Seville, handing it over to the couple in a hotel before travelling to Tenerife to receive the shipment. He was arrested the same night the ferry arrived, stopping the drugs from reaching the island.
What was seized
Police also confiscated €12,697 in cash, several mobile phones, a money-counting machine, and a card payment device during the arrests and property searches.
The attempted smuggling was described in court as a planned operation designed to bring a large amount of high-purity cocaine into the Canary Islands.
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