Overview

• Three crew members—one Colombian and two Ecuadorians—were detained after posing as pilgrims and being flagged by a taxi driver in A Pobra do Caramiñal.
• Police observing the landing pursued a convoy, with one trailer overturning and spilling about 1,000 kilos, and the remaining load recovered the next morning on Niñeiriños beach under a tarp.
• Operation Saona carried out 18 searches across Barbanza and O Salnés, seizing €54,680, two boats, five vehicles, 33 phones, transmission gear and digital storage devices.
• Authorities report 14 people detained across Galicia, with 12 ordered to pretrial custody on suspected drug trafficking, criminal organization and money laundering offenses.
• Coordination with the U.S. DEA and alerts from Galicia’s coast guard about a sunken semisubmersible enabled the onshore interception as investigators continue to trace the broader network.