Mijas squatters arrested for drug dealing

POLICE have arrested three people in an operation to break up an alleged drugs sales point in Mijas.
After becoming aware that drugs were being sold in a three-storey building occupied by squatters, Guardia Civil officers carried out a search and along with the arrests, 262 prepared doses of cocaine and heroin and more than €2,000 in cash were confiscated.
A number of stolen items and animals were also found and returned to their rightful owners.
Water and electricity company technicians were also called to make reports as the building, where squatters had been living on the first floor, allegedly selling drugs on the second and storing and preparing them on the third, had been illegally connected to public supplies.