{"id":73254,"date":"2018-12-27T08:41:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T07:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73254"},"modified":"2018-12-27T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T07:41:53","slug":"drug-smugglers-arrested-after-dramatic-high-speed-police-sea-chase-on-costa-del-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73254","title":{"rendered":"Drug smugglers arrested after dramatic high-speed police sea chase on Costa del Sol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three suspected drug smugglers have been arrested after failing to escape the police in a high-speed water chase on the Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n

The Spanish Civil Guard used a helicopter to hover overhead and a speed boat to intercept the suspects who attempted to flee at full speed in the spectacular Christmas Eve pursuit.<\/p>\n

The detainees are a Spaniard and two Moroccans, and were arrested at Sabinillas beach in Malaga after their high-powered vessel was rammed by police in the several kilometre-chase.<\/p>\n

Footage from the incident shows the suspects alighting the boat and attempting to escape on foot despite the police helicopter landing on the beach first.<\/p>\n

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The high-speed sea chase lasted for several kilometres off the coast of Costa del Sol<\/span><\/figcaption>According to Spanish broadcaster laSexta, the suspects became “extremely violent” as they began to run away, and appear to be throwing stones at the police.<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Authorities say they found a shipment of hashish on board, and the Civil Guard believes that the drums of gasoline that the occupants of the boat abandoned were destined to supply a narco boat about to leave for Morocco.<\/p>\n

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The suspects attempt to make an escape after arriving on the beach<\/span><\/figcaption>Police have been increasing drugs patrols in this area of the Costa Del Sol coast.<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In July, another boat loaded with drugs landed on the beach in broad daylight as stunned holidaymakers looked on.<\/p>\n

The drug runners were caught by an off-duty policeman who was coincidentally on the beach with his family.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three suspected drug smugglers have been arrested after failing to escape the police in a high-speed water chase on the Costa del Sol. The Spanish Civil Guard used a helicopter to hover overhead and a speed boat to intercept the suspects who attempted to flee at full speed in the spectacular Christmas Eve pursuit. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}