Stephen Kane and Nicholas Bell, both 29, passed on the drugs, which were posted from Chile, for sale to wealthy users on the Costa del Sol, Spanish police claim.
They were among 21 people, five of them French, held in police swoops as an international gang was smashed after an 18-month operation.Nearly two tons of cannabis worth £4.8million was also seized. It was smuggled in from Morocco hidden in baby buggies.Toddlers were wheeled through customs at Ceuta, Spain's enclave on the north African coast, with the drugs in special compartments underneath.Photo - Civil Guard.They hid the drugs beneath pushchair mattresses to get through Customs
A gang which used babies to smuggle cannabis into Spain, hiding the drugs beneath the mattresses of their pushchairs as the smugglers went through Customs, has been broken up by the Civil Guard.The gang was part of a wider organisation which had a separate operation for posting cocaine from Chile hidden in bars of chocolate, while a third group was responsible for transporting stolen vehicles to Ceuta and, from there, to Morocco. The vehicles were sometimes completely dismantled into spare parts to allow them to be passed through Customs.21 arrests have been made in Ceuta, Málaga and Cádiz, and it’s understood that two of those in custody are British, although the Interior Ministry has released no details of their identities to the press. The others are five French nationals, 8 Spaniards, five from Morocco and a suspect from Chile. Another 13 people were not taken into custody but are suspects in the case.More than one and a half tons of cannabis and 300 grams of cocaine were seized during the Civil Guard operation, along with 11 vehicles and close to 60,000 € in cash.