Spanish police find builders of underwater drones used to transport drugs

Castellar de la Frontera is a small town in Campo de Gibraltar, in Cadiz, and has few inhabitants. Recentlythe Spanish police discovered in this place a real logistical and technological crime center.

A criminal organization, which had already been dismantled, was engaged in manual manufacturing and modification artifacts in which drugs can be moved, avoiding the control of the agents. Authorities found three small underwater drones ready to move a load of between 150 and 200 kilograms of drugs.

these little ships They could be flown without a crew, requiring only the use of a tablet and an app that allows for remote monitoring.

“A person in his house could control the location and the docking place,” said Juan Antonio Sillero, head of the Union for Drugs and Organized Crime (Udyco) of Algeciras during an act denouncing the semi-submersible.

To create these devices, two test subjects, father and son, they used knowledge of how to handle helicopters, they combined the traditional art with the most advanced technology. Each drone was equipped with two powerful motors. The submarine they were working on already had an addressee: some French drug traffickers who wanted to use it to transport cocaine.

In addition, during the operation, the officers took 14 kilograms of hashish (a powerful concentrated form of cannabis), eight kilograms of marijuana, more than 157,300 euros in cash and six aerial drones Large size.

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