Drugs.
Ertzaintza 255. He found marijuana plants in Lemoa after a fire broke out in a house
The man who lived in the house has admitted that the plants belonged to him, and has therefore been arrested for a public health offence.
Five people have been arrested in Bizkaia on charges of delivering nearly 300 kilos of speed
The arrests have been carried out in several municipalities in the territory and four homes have been searched in Bilbao and Galdakao, one of the largest quantities of this substance detected in the Spanish State.
A 21-year-old boy died in Navarre after consuming nitacene
He died in August 2024, and the University Hospital of Navarre has now confirmed that this was a nitacene death. This is the first death associated with this synthetic opioid in the Basque Country and in the Spanish states.
A network carrying drugs from Bizkaia to Navarre has been dismantled. Four people have been arrested and 22 kilos of speed seized
It was distributed from a flat in Ortuella to Navarre, and the person in charge of transporting the drug was a 76-year-old veteran criminal.
A hundred Spanish police officers have been arrested or investigated over the past five years for their links to drug trafficking
In response to a question from EH Bildu, the Spanish Government has reported that 106 officers have been arrested or investigated since 2021, although it has not specified which police service each person investigated or detained belongs to.
A man has been arrested in Vitoria-Gasteiz while his children were driving in his car for driving at 130 km/h and giving positive cocaine
The 37-year-old man escaped from a gas station, driving a few kilometres recklessly, without a driver's license, until he lost control of the vehicle and hit several parked cars and then tried to flee the agents by taking refuge in a portal.
The US accuses China of allowing links between the chemical industry and drug traffickers
Last year, some 80,000 people died in the United States from drug-related overdoses and poisoning, many of them from cocaine and methamphetamine mixed with fentanyl.
Drug dealer 'El Mencho' and cartel leader Jalisco Nueva Generación has been killed
Jalisco (west) and five other states of the country have issued a alert to prevent citizens from taking to the streets because of the riots caused by this murder.
Three people have been arrested, one of them seriously injured, in an explosion in a house in Obanos
According to the first hypotheses, the three detainees were manipulating some element that caused the explosion.
Three and a half years in prison for drug trafficking and two police injuries
By decision of the parties, the accused may be suspended from imprisonment for a period of three years if he continues to undergo treatment related to mental health.
The three people arrested in San Sebastian have been imprisoned for one kilo of cocaine
According to the Ertzaintza, one of them swallowed cocaine in capsules with the intention of bringing the drug from Brazil to the capital of Guipuzcoana.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested in Pasaia for drug trafficking
He was seized of a number of drugs he was willing to sell, and the detainee had a pre-arrest warrant in force.
Arrested an employee of a Oñati candy store who offered drugs to an ertzaina
The search involved 190 grams of cocaine, 100 grams of hashish and 11,825 euros.
Pregabaline addiction has stabilized among vulnerable young people treated by the Erdu program
The main profile of the programme for the care of persons with addictions in situations of high social vulnerability is that of men between the ages of 18 and 35, many of whom are homeless and have mental health problems.
A woman has been arrested at Barajas airport for hiding two kilos of cocaine in a fake belly
It happened on November 26, when the woman arrived in Madrid on an international flight. At a routine checkpoint, the agents found the woman's responses suspicious. The woman finally removed the fake prosthesis by revealing the drug she was carrying in secret.
Maduro: "Venezuela will not give up, we are invincible"
This is how Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has expressed himself in the faceof conflicting relations with the US. The Soles Cartel has been declared a foreign terrorist organization by Washington and has been militarily deployed in the Caribbean Sea.
The Civil Guard seized in the port of Bilbao carrying 120 kilos of drugs has been sent to prison
Agents of the Civil Guard were investigating a co-operative for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking, who was working in the area of Fiscal and Frontiers and whose mission was to ensure security at customs and border crossings.
The "office" of the Jalisco Cartel in Spain has been dismantled, with an operational branch in Bilbao
The National Police has arrested 20 people in an international macro-operation involving 1,870 kilograms of cocaine and dismantling the structure of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel in Spain.
Young people drink and smoke less than ever, but those in the Basque Country are at the forefront of cannabis use
The ESTUDES report notes that alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use among adolescents in the Basque Country has fallen to the lowest levels in the last 25 years, although the Basque Country is at the forefront of cannabis use among children aged 14 to 18 and has the highest rate of state drunkenness.
22 detainees for illegally selling medicines, one in Bizkaia
The Civil Guard launched Operation Grecofar by detecting a large number of psychotropic substances at a packaging company in Benavent, Zamora, as a result of which a large number of private prescriptions from a doctor were identified.