The events date back to the early hours of August 26, 2023, when Civil Guard agents detected a large semi-rigid vessel navigating without lights. Upon landing at the old Almadraba, a group of twelve people began to unload merchandise.

Following the intervention of the fiscal patrol from Ayamonte, those involved fled, leaving behind 59 bales of hashish, wrapped in burlap, and seven wheelbarrows used for drug transport on the sand.

Hours after the landing, agents from the Lepe post located two men hiding in dense vegetation in a hard-to-reach area, within a protected natural park and seven kilometers from the nearest vehicle access point. Both attempted to escape and offered a false alibi, claiming they were fishing despite lacking the necessary equipment.

The arrested individuals had wet clothes and footwear, and were wearing red t-shirts and black shorts, a uniform that, according to the judicial resolution, could have served for identification among organization members during the nighttime unloading. Two mobile phones, constantly receiving calls and messages, and a headlamp were seized from one of the men.

The seized haul amounted to a net weight of 2,006.88 kilograms of hashish, with an estimated illicit market value of 3,753,909 euros. The Huelva Court has imposed a sentence of three years, nine months, and one day in prison on one of the convicted individuals, due to the aggravating circumstance of recidivism. The second has been sentenced to three years and one day in jail.

Additionally, both must pay two fines of four million euros each, as perpetrators of a crime against public health, under the categories of notorious importance and extreme gravity due to the use of a vessel.