Former police boss arrested with 1,800 illegal packets of cigarettes in La Linea
A FORMER police boss has been arrested for smuggling 1,800 illegal packets of cigarettes into Spain.
The ex-chief of La Linea local police was picked up with the contraband, which had a street value of €7,931, stuffed inside suitcases in the boot of his car. Malaga police had been monitoring the retired officer’s vehicle and made the bust after he picked up the load from a garage in La Linea.
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