Baseball Bats, Atms and Death Threats: a Plot that Enslaved Addicts to Finance Their Drug Business Uncovered in the Canary Islands

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The organization disbanded by the National Police in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) had built a criminal model that went beyond selling drugs. Its own clients, people trapped by addiction and without resources to pay for their consumption, involuntarily became the workforce of the network. They monitored, transported merchandise, sought buyers and, when the debt became unpayable, stole. Thirteen detainees and two sealed properties were the r…