5 - 11 October 2017
Time for porkies! A GROUP of British volunteers have captured 42 Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs in Javea. As previously reported in the Euro Weekly News, the town has been suffering from a plague of the domesticated hogs after several escaped from captivity. But they have become a pest for residents after breeding freely in the Cala Blanca neighbourhood. The group collected included 24 adults and 18 piglets, and they have been taken to Madrid.
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Busted! Drugs gang held By Linda Hall Ten people have been held after police swooped on a drugs gang in Gandia. Six men and four women, all aged between 26 and 62, were arrested as police officers stormed numerous properties and storage facilities, seizing more than a kilogram of cocaine, 45 grams of hashish and around €40,000 in cash, along with a vehicle, three mobile phones and equipment used to package the drugs. The investigation began in June when the police suspected that a restaurant owner in Gandia was selling drugs together with his partner. Throughout the course of the investigation, the police discov-
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SEIZED: Drugs and cash. ered that the operation was of a much larger scale and that the drugs were supplied to the restaurant owner, who had ‘runners’ around the municipality, distributing the drugs on a daily basis.
Of the cocaine seized, 393 grams were enveloped in ‘wraps’ ready for sale. Of the detainees - Colombians, Spaniards and Ukranians - five already have criminal records.
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