An operation between Spain and Portugal has made it possible to arrest fifteen people, including an accused drug trafficker known as “the fearsome Calin”,when he tried to flee to the Dominican Republic, the Spanish Police reported this Saturday.
The Police explained in a statement that an organization accused of introducing cocaine into Spain, which was allegedly led by Carlos Julio Matos Montero, “the fearsome Calín”, who has a long criminal record and was about to flee from Portugal to the Dominican Republic, was dismantled. , his native country.
This man He was investigated by the Spanish Police since 2019 as allegedly responsible for the introduction into Spain of forty kilos of cocaine through the Madrid airport and was arrested when he was going to take a flight from Lisbon.
Among other records, Matos Montero was arrested in 2014 in the Dominican Republic for the death of Oscar González Matos. He had arrived in that country deported in 2003 after serving a year in prison in the United States, in 2009 he was accused of two murders and in 2011 of another.
The police operation culminated in numerous searches in several Spanish cities, in which 83 kilos of cocaine, 28 telephone terminals, a revolver, seven vehicles, two scales and numerous documents, among other effects, were seized.
The investigation began in April 2021 when the agents learned that a man of Dominican origin was allegedly responsible for the transfer of a woman to the Spanish island of Lanzarote (Atlantic) with sixty balls of cocaine, for which she was arrested in Madrid airport.
The agents found out that it was “the fearsome Calín” and later detected that the alleged recipient of the drug and leader of the organization fled to Portugal upon realizing the arrests of other alleged members of the gang, for which a European warrant was issued. detention and was arrested by the Portuguese Police when he tried to escape to his country of origin.
The investigation pointed out that those investigated could be the owners of a suitcase seized at the Lisbon airport in October 2021 with thirty kilos of cocaine and two others in January 2022 with another fifty kilos, until they made several arrests, including one woman who used false documentation from Belgium to hide an arrest warrant that weighed on her for drug trafficking, according to the Police.