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POLICE IN MAJORCA have arrested two Irish men suspected of belonging to a drug trafficking gang.
The pair were held after the detention of a British drug dealer on the holiday island.
Detectives say that, following the man’s arrest, they discovered that he was a member of a criminal gang selling drugs to tourists and expatriates in Magaluf and the neighbouring resort of Palmanova.
One of the Irishmen is described as being one of the leaders of the organisation and has been accused of selling drugs in Punta Ballena, Magaluf’s brash party area.
He was initially held on Tuesday with his compatriot. 50 grams of cocaine and a quantity of anabolic steroids were seized during a subsequent search of his home.
Neither man has yet been named.
The operation – led by the Guardia Civil based in the municipality of Calvia – was dubbed Operation Leprechaun.
They confirmed the arrests in a statement released today.
“The Guardia Civil has arrested two Irish nationals suspected of forming part of a criminal drugs trafficking gang,” a spokesman said.
The leader of the gang is believed to be one of the two men arrested, who is suspected of selling drugs in the Punta Ballena area.
Officers said the operation was continuing and further arrests may now take place.
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Juice your own! Cheaper and a lot less sugar!
There smoothies are loaded with as much suger as fizzy drinks terrible stuff
Natural fruit sugar is healthier than the sugar in fizzy drinks, not really a good comparison
On the contrary! Too much fruit, especially when juiced and when fibre is removed causes a huge spike in blood sugar.
Boycott apples and oranges, they are full of sugar!
Get a grip folks, everything in moderation, live and let live etc.
This stuff is absolutely loaded with suger…far from innoncent!
It was always rank slop filled with sugar. And it still is.
It’s an interesting business case study , not really as strange a move as it may appear though as Tropicana orange juice was taken over by Pepsi many years earlier so Coke was just responding to the growth in markets for juices and smoothies , plus they had missed the mark when Redbull stole a lead in the energy drink market under their nose so buying innocent made perfect sense for them
It has all to do with selling sugar……America is awash with cheap corn syrup (fructose), and anything that value adds to this cheap form of sugar is fair game for the likes of Coca Cola.
If you look at the aisles in somewhere like Dunnes Stores, there is a full row of biscuits, a full aisle of sweets and chocolate, and ever increasing amounts of pop scattered around the store.
In the fridge section, you now have Smoothies creeping in beside the fruit juices. There is an ever increasing percentage of floor area being devoted to foods based on this cheap sugar.
It can be dressed up with fancy fruit and marketing and labelling the thing Innocent, but it is still a very unhealthy form of sugar.
The chap says he goes over to Brazil and buys up almost all the oranges , where are these oranges grown ? Are they grown on land that is cleared rainforest.
Things go better with coke.
They’re milking the juice.
Far Cue. The Chinese snooker champion
I think Coca-Cola are an unethical company so I try to keep my spend on their products as low as possible. I had an Innocent smoothie once & that was enough. Over-priced shite
Sugar trade. More channels fr CocaCola to push disguised sugar. Innocent…yeah right.
So don’t buy it.
As do bosca ?
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