Scot is held after drugs bust - Herald Scotland | News | Crime & Courts

Scot is held after drugs bust - Herald Scotland | News | Crime & Courts: "Scottish expat spent Christmas behind bars for his alleged part in a suspected drugs gang in a Spanish holiday resort.

James Lindsay, 51, has been held since last week after he was picked up during a major police operation near Alicante on the Costa Blanca.

Lindsay was arrested with two other British citizens, 64-year-old David Tricks, from Luton, and John Hugoes, 40, whose hometown is unknown.

Spanish drugs officers found 600kg of hashish, worth an estimated £1.8m, at a house shared by the three men in Catral, near Alicante.

Also recovered during the operation were three imitation firearms and €25,000 (£21,250) in cash. Six luxury cars, computers, field-glasses and 30 mobile phones were also seized, police said.

Reports in the Spanish press said one of the men was later re-arrested after trying to flee from a hospital where he was treated for a stroke apparently suffered during the initial operation.

The three men are being questioned as part of a probe into a long-running drugs operation on the Spanish holiday coast.

A spat between rival gangs recently saw a 1.2-tonne shipment of hashish stolen at gun point as it was unloaded from boats at a remote beach, according to local reports."

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