The chief colonel of the Zone of the Guardia Civil in the Balearic Islands, Alejandro Hernández, pronounced yesterday on the possibility that the use of humans in trafficking drugs, known as ‘mules’, could now be a common practice in the trafficking of narcotics arriving on Ibiza, after agents of the Guardia Civil discovered at the airport of es Codolar on Sunday three people -two women and a man- who were trying to bring more than three kilos of cocaine to the island , part of it inside their bodies.
Modes of drug trafficking
For Hernandez, the seized caches “clearly demonstrate” that the storage of drugs inside the human body for trafficking “is a procedure that is still being used“. However, he clarified that he does not know the possible scope of this method within the procedures used by drug traffickers. “We do not have the capacity to say if it is common or not [the volume of activity] but in any case it is being carried out” for the trafficking of narcotic substances onto the island, he declared.
Yesterday it was still unknown how much the stash amounts to, since in the Hospital Can Misses the traffickers, who still remain admitted, continue to expel small bags of cocaine, as Hernandez explained. “The total amount we will know when they finish releasing everything they carry in their stomachs,” he said. In any case, he advanced, a minimum of three and a half kilos have been seized.
It should be recalled that this is not the only major drug seizure on the island in recent days by the Guardia Civil, since on Monday another 13 kilos of cocaine were seized when a passenger on a ferry disembarked on the island with a stash hidden inside his car. In fact, these two operations are the reason why the head of the Guardia Civil in the Balearic Islands gave a press conference yesterday.
About 16 kilos of cocaine have been seized. | TONI ESCOBAR
In both actions, explained Hernández, the state of nervousness of the traffickers facilitated the success of the actions. In the case of the mules, “the guards were suspicious because of their appearance and the sweat,” said Hernández, while the driver of the vehicle that was traveling by ferry with thirteen kilos of cocaine “was absolutely paralyzed” when the agents stopped him. “They tried to talk to him, but he was in shock,” says Hernandez.
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