{"id":34233,"date":"2026-06-03T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/34233\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:03:17","slug":"germany-seizes-tons-of-cocaine-and-suspects-are-arrested-in-spain-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/34233\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany seizes tons of cocaine and suspects are arrested in Spain | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/germany\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">German<\/a> authorities said Wednesday they have seized more than 8 metric tons of cocaine from a container that was supposed to be carrying cacao beans, and two suspects were later arrested in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>German customs investigators put the street value of the cocaine seized in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven at about 500 million euros ($582 million).<\/p>\n<p>The drugs were seized on Feb. 9. The arrests were made in El Ejido, in the Spanish province of Almer\u00eda, on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>The container had arrived from West Africa and was destined for Spain, investigators said in a statement. Instead of cacao beans, officials found more than 400 packets wrapped in black foil, each containing about 20 blocks of compressed cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The shipment was destroyed in Germany before the container was sent on its way to Barcelona. Investigators identified two suspected organizers of the shipment and arrested them during a handover of the container.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, the manager of an import company, has been linked to a previous cocaine shipment by Spanish customs, the statement said. The pair could face prison sentences in Spain if tried and convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2013 German authorities said Wednesday they have seized more than 8 metric tons of cocaine from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16616,780,2439,865,4085,4375,17,4546],"class_list":["post-34233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-cacao-beans","tag-cocaine","tag-drugs","tag-germany","tag-narcotics","tag-seizure","tag-spain","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}