Axes, Guns, Cocaine and a Brit in Cuffs: the Shocking Haul From Tenerife’s Laughing Gas Bust
Guardia Civil said the family-run network imported and sold the gas through nightlife areas, with six arrests and six people under investigation.
- The Guardia Civil seized 10,394 containers of nitrous oxide weighing close to 13,000 kilograms in Tenerife, marking the second-largest apprehension of the substance recorded in Europe.
- Dubbed Operación Centro, the investigation uncovered a hierarchical criminal organization built around a family leadership operating across Arona, Adeje, and Granadilla de Abona in southern Tenerife.
- Officers arrested six people and placed six others under investigation, recovering €63,500 in cash, axes, and drugs including 213g of cocaine, 599g of hashish, 1.4kg of cannabis, and 46 grams of Tusi.
- Investigators report the network split into two branches: one handled logistics and importation of nitrous oxide from abroad, while the second managed street-level sales across nightlife areas like Playa de las Américas.
- The EU Drugs Agency warns that frequent nitrous oxide inhalation can cause permanent nerve damage, prompting wider crackdowns on the Costa del Sol and tighter controls introduced this year in the Balearic Islands.
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The Guardia Civil has broken up a criminal organization in the South of Tenerife dedicated to the import, storage and illegal distribution of nitrous oxide or 'gas de la Laughter', a substance used as recreational drug. In the operation 13 tons of this substance have been intervened and six people arrested, in addition to six others investigated. It is the second largest apprehension in Europe of nitrous oxide, highlights sources of the armed in…
The Guardia Civil has dismantled in the South of Tenerife a criminal organization dedicated to the import, storage and illegal distribution of nitrous oxide or 'gas...
This is Europe's second largest operation of this substance
The apprehension of nitrous oxide has also led to the arrest of six people and the investigation of another half-dozen.
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