Vilson landed on July 2 at the hacksaw of Torremolinos with 211 kilos of hashish that he himself unloaded and hid in some bushes so that one of his companions would pick them up later. The Civil Guard let him do it and recorded the scene from a distance for a long time before arresting him and intervene the R-44, one of the models preferred by the drug traffickers who bet on the airway to introduce the hashish of Morocco. The intercontinental flight ended with Nerja, near the settlement that the group had in Almunecar, and then streaked through the sky parallel to the coast until it landed north of the highway in an Arizona landscape.
It was a drug flight from manual. Mostly nocturnal despite not having the necessary instruments to do it in the dark and flush so as not to be detected visually or by radar. A suicidal trip in view of the orography of Malaga and of the numerous fatal accidents that this clandestine activity has claimed in recent years in Andalusia. The most recent last spring, when another R-44 fell into the sea after taking off in Estepona or the one of Pedrera (Seville), which added two deaths after crashing into a tree two summers ago. Flying in these conditions is a Russian roulette, especially if the devices, which easily reach 200 kilometers per hour, do not have adequate maintenance and if there is no skill at the controls. Not this time. Although the intervened helicopters were discontinued because their flight hours had expired, the investigators acknowledge that they appeared to be in excellent mechanical condition and that the pilots had good references. Above all Wilson, a veteran Albanian with a record for having smuggled drugs into Italy with a small plane and who could have become a pilot in the Balkan War. It’s not the first time Albania exports pilots for this type of missions. Sokol Feka, a high-ranking military pilot in his country, died in Gaucín in 2015 with another person when they crashed with a helicopter that was carrying almost a ton of hashish from Morocco.
the arrest of Wilson she was not the first in the operation, but she was the most photogenic. An award for an investigation that started a year earlier, in August 2020, when the Civil Guard detected on the Costa del Sol a group of French of Moroccan origin who moved in stolen and rented vehicles and with false number plates. The bulk of the gang was from Paris, surely the final destination of the drug, and had settled in the urbanization Aloha Lake Village, near the lake of the turtles, but little by little the extensive logistics network that had been woven Samy, one of the most active men in the gang who has used up to five different identities. The agents also found free homes on the coast of Granada and Peniscola, a town in Castellón where they pretended to have a tile distribution company.
The investigators managed to neutralize two large shipments hidden between white tiles in trucks that left warehouses in the Villanueva del Trabuco and Humilladero industrial estates.
The productivity of the group has been unquestionable. Throughout the operation, the armed institute has intervened almost 2.5 tons of hashish and 112 kilos of marijuana. The researchers managed to neutralize two large shipments hidden between white tiles in trucks that left warehouses in the industrial estates of the Malaga municipalities of Villanueva del Trabuco Y Humilladero. The first was intercepted with the help of the French authorities in Narbona with 419 kilos of hashish and the second in Chauchina (Granada) with 860 kilos, although the investigations also revealed that they were betting on the transport of drugs to France by the method of go fast (go fast) in cars of great power and load capacity. One of these vehicles left from a house in The Line of Conception and intercepted at The base with 327 kilos of hashish, while two others were conceived in the garage of the luxurious home of Marbella. One was neutralized Port-Bou (Gerona), this time with the batch of marijuana, and the other shortly after leaving for Málaga. Before being intercepted, the driver of this last vehicle tried to run over a civil guard who was participating in the device to capture him, although the agent managed to throw the spiked barrier at him, causing the suspect to lose a tire. desperately, It came to circulate on the tire at more than 180 kilometers per hour for a few minutes and rammed a police vehicle before giving up. He was carrying 329 kilos of drugs and in the house of Marbella another 266 kilos were found.
During the monitoring of one of the group’s trucks in the province of Granada, a breakdown put those in charge of the vehicle in trouble and the agents had to intervene when they saw that they intended to set it on fire to destroy the evidence. Upon inspecting the cargo, the guards verified that it was carrying an Alouette II, a model that the French manufacturer South Aviation became legendary in the 1950s as the world’s first mass-produced helicopter with a gas turbine engine rather than a piston. The other crown jewels were found in a warehouse in the Almeria municipality of Velez-Rubio, very close to the A-92N motorway. They were two others Alouette, devices that can be purchased for prices ranging between 250,000 and 300,000 euros, according to sources close to the investigation. As with the R-44 from Torremolinos, they had removed the rear seats to gain cargo space, but in these models they added side structures as baskets with the dimensions of bales to make each trip even more profitable. The operation adds up for now 11 arrested (another 9 pending location in France) and the intervention of four firearms, abundant ammunition, bulletproof vests and numerous electronic devices to avoid police action.
www.informacion.es
Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.