07/09
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Hi biggies.
The hash drought is hurting right now, isn't it?
I'm really here for the hash and there's very little left and what there is is £400 an ounce which I wont pay.
I heard some rumours as to why this is, but I've now found out a couple of articles that might give some insight as to why we are where we are at at the moment. I know there will be several of you wondering why as well, so I thought I'd post what I had found in the interests of pooling our knowledge and hope you find this useful:

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10 tonnes of hashish seized in the Strait of Gibraltar with six arrested in Judicial Police coordinated operation

The hashish seized “in the last days” by the Portuguese Judicial Police aboard a vessel “off the Strait of Gibraltar” which came from Morocco was destined for an “African country of the Mediterranean basin”.

The operation coordinated by the Judicial Police in Portugal involved the Navy, through the Marines, who approached of the vessel on the high seas. The Air Force, provided night time surveillance, tracking the vessel over 12 hours, from the north of Morocco in international waters’, revealed Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Costa.

Artur Vaz, coordinator of the National Unit to Combat Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs (UNCTE), told a press conference at the Naval Point in Portimão, where the seized boat was taken and where the drug was unloaded under heavy police surveillance, that the investigation started a year ago.

The operation ‘Levante’ culminated in the seizure of a fishing vessel turned into a Dutch-flagged recreational boat which was carrying the drugs. Six men were also detained, two of them Portuguese, and the other of nationalities that the person responsible did not want to reveal, for being able to “call into question the investigations still in progress”.

In the boat, 333 bales of drugs were seized, which were packed in a compartment. Hashish was being transported from Morocco to another North African country, situated in the Mediterranean, from where it would then be ‘distributed by other countries, including several European countries’.

The approach was made in international waters, by elements of the Portuguese Marines. The men aboard the hash-loaded boat offered no resistance, according to Comandante Carvalho Pinto, Director of the Center for Maritime Operations (Comar).

Asked if the traffickers would have weapons, Carvalho Pinto said that “if they were armed, they did not have time to react”.

The six detainees, aged between 20 and 61, are suspected of being part of a “transnational criminal organization with strong support in Portugal”.

This drug seizure, with an estimated weight of 10 tons, represents more than all the narcotics caught last year in Portugal. However, Artur Vaz, UNCTE coordinator, stressed that “the operation is valid not only for the quantities seized, but for the dismantling of the criminal entity that is behind this trafficking”.

The operation is the result of an investigation by UNCTE, with the collaboration of Europol, the Maritime Analysis and Operations Center – Narcotics (MAOC-N), Spanish, French, Dutch and Greek authorities.

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Drug kingpin known as 'Messi of hash' arrested while eating lunch with family in Spain's Andalucia - Olive Press News Spain
Charlie Smith


THE boss of one of Andalucia’s biggest drug gangs, known as the ‘Messi of hashish’, has been arrested.

Named only as ‘Jesus H’, police arrested the head of the Los Pantojas clan yesterday in Chiclana de la Frontera.

The drug kingpin was detained as he enjoyed a family lunch in a beachside restaurant in a ‘luxury area’ of the town, a police source told Europa Press.

The man is understood to have controlled ‘practically all transport’ of hash from Morocco into Cadiz.

He was snared following a Policia Nacional ‘search and arrest’ operation and his detention was described as a ‘huge blow for the region’s hash network’.

His charges include ‘membership of a criminal organisation’ as well as ‘drug-related’ charges.

It comes just a month after dozens of fellow alleged Los Pantojas gang members were held following a joint Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional investigation.

On May 25, some 36 people were arrested in Operation Caniche, with at least 18 understood to have been jailed.

Police seized some 4,300 kilos of hash, 19 vehicles, electronic equipment, phones, a submachine gun, another firearm and cash.

The haul also included nautical equipment, jet skis and nine semi-rigid, recreational and fishing boats.

‘Semi-rigid’ boats, also dubbed ‘RIBs’, ‘gomas’ or ‘narco boats’ are the preferred method of transport for drug traffickers shipping hash from North Africa to Spain.

Huge outboard motors are added to the vessels’ lightweight frames, which makes them suited to evading police at sea.

A probe into the Los Pantojas gang, which centred on head honcho ‘El Pantoja’ was launched in April 2019.

The Spanish authorities suggested the man had been linked to the drug trade since his youth, before ‘rising through the ranks’.

The ‘rising star’ is then understood to have been taken under the wing of the drug trafficker Abdellah El Haj, after gaining his trust.

He is understood to have evaded law enforcement on previous occasions, earning the nickname ‘the Messi of hash’, before turning to ‘security and logistics’ work for the gang.

Police said that the gang was composed of several groups, who ‘did not hesitate to use violence’.

‘El Messi’ is said to have employed a ‘lieutenant’ who took charge of ‘land and sea’ operations.

The gang worked day and night, including using pleasure boats, and would import at least half a tonne of hash at a time.

Using ‘semi-rigid’ boats at night, they were able to transport more hash, with the vessels typically able to carry around three tonnes of hash at a time.

The Olive Press revealed at the weekend how drug runs across the Mediterranean had left British expats at one Costa del Sol urbanization ‘fearful’.

On Saturday morning, the latest incident saw bales of hash and abandoned jet skis strewn across an Estepona beach, while on previous occasions locals were ‘threatened with death’.

One Brit resident said armed police staking out the area had given her the ‘heebie-jeebies’ and she was worried about ‘drug lords tracking her down’.