Overview

• Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional dismantled an itinerant butronero network on July 18, arresting five suspects and seizing €567,471 in stolen copper
• Policía Nacional’s 'Operación Verano' netted six alleged drug traffickers—of Colombian, Dominican and Spanish origin—in Mallorca tourist zones
• A Gendarmería Nacional sergeant was sentenced to six years in prison after a judge approved a plea deal in a nearly 10 kg cocaine transport case
• Buenos Aires prosecutors have formally charged Officer Thomas Valentín Zalazar with exceeding legitimate defense in a February shooting
• Mexico City’s Fiscalía General is tracking down possible escape vehicles and reviewing surveillance footage in the May ambush killing of two collaborators