The National Police have arrested 14 men and a woman between 20 and 61 years old in Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria, who were using ‘mules’ to bring heroin in to the Canary Islands by carrying the drugs in wraps inside their bodies on flights from the Netherlands.
According to a report by the Higher Police Headquarters of the Canary Islands, the detainees are of Dominican, Spanish, Colombian and Venezuelan nationalities and have been arrested for being members of a criminal organization and drug trafficking.