A patera small boat containing 875 kilos of hashish in a false bottom has been recovered by the authorities on the Tiburón beach in San Roque, Cádiz.
The drug came to light as the five metre boat broke up as it was being removed from the water by members of the local beach club. The drug was found in a false bottom and sides of the vessel.

Three members of the Spanish Navy are waiting to appear in court after 250 kilos of hashish was found on a navy coastal patrol vessel in the Strait of Gibraltar. The vessel had departed from Ceuta and docked in San Fernando in Cádiz and a joint Navy and Police investigation continues. The vessel’s mission was to patrol the Spanish waters in the Ceuta area.

A man from Ceuta has beaten the national record in Spain for the amount of cannabis pellets carried in his stomach. He was arrested coming out of a Cádiz hotel this weekend, having smuggled 150 pellets inside his stomach. La Voz Digital gave the previous record as 128.smuggled 150 pellets to Cádiz inside his stomach The paper said Nordine H.S. was arrested in port in Algeciras last year with more than two kilos of cannabis strapped to his body, and had been under surveillance since this January, since when he had made another four trips over to Cádiz from Ceuta. The 35 year old is reported to have sold the drugs on in the city and in Fuengirola, on the Costa del Sol.He has now been remanded to custody.

Officers from the Guardia Civil's Maritime Service detained a man from Cádiz on Wednesday morning after finding 530 kilos of hashish stashed away in a hidden compartment in his yacht. The boat, which was in Barbate port, has been confiscated.