Spanish police on Saturday seized a 500-kilo (1,100-pound) haul of hashish hidden aboard a plane arriving from Morocco and arrested eight alleged traffickers from a handful of countries. The drug ring used airplanes to "get around increasingly tight border controls intended to prevent illegal immigration" from Morocco.
In addition to making the hashish haul, police arrested eight people aboard the Cessna 207 Skywagon right after it flew in from Moulay Ali Chrif in Morocco and landed at a regional airport outside the southern city of Murcia. The two South American pilots, and three Spaniards, two Italians and a Moroccan national aboard were arrested. Spanish police were tipped off to the drug ring by Italian police.Spain made its largest hash seizure ever in October 2005, when it discovered 27 tonnes of the drug in a truck in the southern port of Algeciras that had arrived from the Moroccan city of Tangiers.
In additional drug news, two Moroccans were arrested by Spanish security forces on Thursdayy in Fuerteventura with 12kg of hashish they were attempting to smuggle into the Canary Islands.
The hashish was concealed in a car that landed from a ferry linking Lanzarote and Fuerteventura and found by the Spanish Guardia Civil.
The arrest is part of a surveillance operation carried out by the Spanish law enforcement agents to detect drug smuggling activities in the Canary Islands.
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