Spectacular chase shows drug runners land their boat on beach at Mallorca holiday resort
Spectacular footage shows drug runners landing their boat on the beach of holiday resort Mallorca after a speedboat chase with police… before a helicopter follows them as they run through the streets
Stunning footage shows drug couriers running away from police and sprinting through stunned tourists at a holiday resort just before 1,200 kilograms of hashish was seized.
The Majorca Civil Guard shared the video of the inflatable boat approaching the coast of the island at high speed from the direction of North Africa.
Last Friday at 4 am the boat was loaded by two off-road vehicles in Cala Sa Nu with bales of hashish and 68 barrels of petrol.
The drug runners fled to sea after realizing they had been spotted by police, leading to the dramatic chase, as officials knew they didn’t have enough fuel for a long sea voyage.
The desperate suspects beached their boat at high speed after a dramatic maritime chase for terrifyingly stunned sunbathing tourists relaxing at their Majorca resort.
Police had spotted a boat loaded with drugs and fuel and engaged in a high-speed chase
The suspects got off the boat, which they beached and left behind, before sprinting through a holiday resort
The chase ensues as police boats approach the drug couriers and follow them to land, while the RIB they are in bounces over the waves.
Officials had tracked down the boat, which still had the drugs on board, during the morning and police officers were waiting ashore to intercept the suspects.
The drug runners become stranded at high speed before disembarking on foot and running across the sand in an attempt to escape the authorities.
The drug runners were chased through a packed tourist resort and narrowly avoided toppling tanning beds
All three were eventually apprehended by the police. Officials found 1,200 hash which was subsequently seized
A helicopter tracking the location of the suspected criminals captures them as they sprint through the resort, narrowly avoiding tourists and tanning beds, before being detained.
The Civil Guard seized 31 bales of hashish pollen weighing 1,200 kilos and arrested three people.
It said in a statement that: “A narcolancha intercepted [speedboat used for drug running] who was heading at high speed from North Africa to the coast of Majorca.’
The use of fast inflatable boats – also known as RIBs – for drug trafficking has become a more serious problem for Spanish officials.
Police recently boarded an abandoned narco-submarine ‘ghost ship’ found off the Spanish coast.
The footage shows only the bow of the 15-meter semi-submersible emerging from the waves and authorities inspecting the ship, which was in a near-vertical position
The 15-meter semi-submersible was seen sinking in Vilagarcia de Arousa, off the coast of the northern Spanish province of Pontevedra in the Galicia region.
The footage shows only the bow of the vessel emerging from the waves and authorities inspecting the vessel, which was in a near-vertical position.
It is unclear whether there are still narcotics on board or whether it was deliberately sunk after the cargo was discharged.
The Guardia Civil said: ‘Our colleagues from the GEAS (Special Group of Underwater Activities) are trying to retrieve it.’
The discovery of the narc submarine came just days after the Colombian navy seized a 15-meter submarine with more than 2.6 tons of cocaine and two dead bodies on board in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.