Bullet holes lead to drug arrests

The Guardia Civil in Huercal de Almeria were called in to investigate the appearance of bullet holes in the wall of a house in the town, one of the holes inside the bedroom of the home. Upon studying the trajectories and angles of the bullet impacts the investigating officers determined that the shots had possibly come from the house behind the one affected and decided to interview its inhabitants. On approaching the house the agents thought the shots had come from they observed a man leave the property carrying a bag of rubbish. After stopping and identifying the man the Guardia Civil inspected the bag he was carrying and discovered several shell cases of a calibre similar to that of the bullets recovered earlier. On questioning the man he claimed to know nothing of the contents of the bag. The Guardia Civil went on to examine a car belonging to one of the inhabitants of the house the shots had come from which was parked in the street. Inside they found two plastic bags containing what later turned out to be about 200 grammes of cocaine as well as 100 grammes of hashish and several pistol cartridges. With this evidence the Guardia Civil obtained a warrant to search the house where they found another smaller quantity of cocaine and 33 9mm cartridges. Three men were arrested.