NINE people have been arrested after police discovered drugs being smuggled from Spain to Manchester in boxes of frozen broccoli.
Spanish police say three pallets were sent from Guadlajara, 40 miles north-east of Madrid, to Manchester with one of the 'heads' of the gang involved travelling to the city as part of the operation.
It's believed cocaine and cannabis were being shipped out to the UK inside the boxes of broccoli.
Following a two-year operation involving both the Spanish National Police and the UK's National Crime Agency, seven suspects are being held in Britain and two in Spain.
Officers seized two-and-a-half tonnes of cannabis and 187 kilos of cocaine during property searches and a raid on a warehouse in Guadalajara.
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