The Civil Guard has arrested a 35-year-old man who fled last October after being rescued by agents of the Maritime Service when he was crewing a narco-boat that ran aground in a rocky area in Chipiona (Cádiz). Once rescued, he attacked an agent whom he threw into the sea to flee in the auxiliary boat of the Civil Guard to the shore.
As explained by the Armed Institute in a note, the events occurred on the morning of October 6, 2022 when, through the Integrated External Surveillance System (SIVE), they detected the presence of a boat occupied by four crew members at the mouth of the river Guadalquivir that was sailing along a very common drug trafficking route, which aroused suspicion.
During the monitoring of the boat, the Civil Guard observed how the RIB was dangerously stranded on a reef near the Chipiona estuary, verifying that two of the crew members jumped into the water to flee by swimming and the other two were trapped due to the impossibility of face the rough sea.
Thus, the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard of Cádiz was notified, which came to the aid of these two people, with the added difficulty of strong currents and the almost inaccessible rocky area, which forced the agents to use the auxiliary boat that allowed them to reach, with considerable difficulty, the exact point of the rescue.
During the complicated rescue work, the agents observed that the crew members were in a state of hypothermia on a 12-meter-long semi-rigid, three 300-horsepower engines each and 91 bales of hashish.
The civil guards carried out difficult rescue maneuvers that allowed them to safeguard the physical integrity of both, dressing them in items so that they could warm up and then headed for the patrol boat ‘Águeda River’ to bring them completely to safety.
The escape of the drug traffickers and the entire course of events seems like something out of a movie. As explained by the Civil Guard, once they managed to bring the auxiliary to the ‘Águeda River’, the agents repeated the maneuvers to get them on board. At that moment, the now detainee took advantage of the rearguard of the agent who was collaborating in the transfer maneuver of his partner to attack him, push him and throw him into the sea, leaving him injured and at the mercy of the current.
Thus, the attacker seized the controls of the auxiliary boat and quickly fled towards the shore where he abandoned it to continue on foot, seriously endangering the life of the agent who was forced to avoid the propellers in the escape maneuver.
On July 5, agents from the Organized Crime and Anti-Drug Team of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard put an end to months of investigation that has led to the location and arrest of 35-year-old M.K.J in La Línea de la Concepción of age, a native of Gibraltar and a resident of La Línea, for the crimes of drug trafficking and attack on an agent of authority. Once made available to the courts in the Mixed Court number 3 of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, he has been ordered to enter prison.
