Spain finds 20 tons of cannabis in pepper shipments

MADRID: Spanish police said Wednesday they had seized 20 tons of cannabis hidden in refrigerated trucks carrying peppers from Morocco. Officers stopped a truck carrying 12 tons of cannabis resin in false compartments behind boxes of green peppers in the southern province of Cadiz on October 21, Spain’s National Police said in a statement. Three days later, a second truck carrying eight tons of the drug was intercepted near the city of Granada. Both vehicles had arrived at the port of Algeciras from Tangier.

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