The well-known drug trafficker Anselmo Sevillano was arrested in Estepona, Malaga, after a chase along the A-7 highway and urbanization in the area by local police officers from the municipality and Marbella. Sevillano, who had been considered one of the most active hashish drug traffickers at the beginning of the century, had been arrested in Huelva in 2011 after six years on the run from justice. He was currently in third-grade prison, but his whereabouts were unknown after he did not show up at the end of a permit to travel from Galicia to Seville. The inmate accumulates several sentences that will keep him in prison until the end of this decade.
Sevillano had spent several years in Cordoba prison until February of this year, when he got a work contract in A Coruña through a lawyer who represented him. There, he worked as a driver during the day and had to return to the Social Reinsertion Center in the Galician city to sleep at night. After requesting a permit to attend a trial in Seville, he never returned.
His fall was practically a coincidence, as reported by El Confidencial. Sevillano was driving a gray Mercedes-Benz with German license plates in San Pedro Alcántara (Marbella) when a patrol of the Marbella Local Police stopped him after observing something strange in his driving. Far from stopping, the driver accelerated and began to flee, which led him first to the A-7 highway in the direction of Estepona. The agents requested the collaboration of several police patrols from the neighboring municipality, and shortly after seven o’clock in the evening, the vehicle managed to be intercepted in the access lane to the Guadalmansa urbanization. It was later taken to the National Police station.
His arrest took place just five kilometers from the Atalaya Park urbanization, also in Estepona, where he was captured in August 2011. On that occasion, Sevillano had already been wanted for six years for breach of sentence. The agents of the Narcotics Group of the Judicial Police of Huelva surprised him in a luxurious villa, where they found several high-end cars, more than fifty cell phones, and half a dozen nautical GPS.
He fell under the so-called Operation Celeste, which had the collaboration of the Special Response Group for Organized Crime (Greco) Costa del Sol, and in which ten other people were arrested after finding a cache of 3.6 tons of hashish in the Huelva municipality of Isla Cristina. Previously, in 2005, he had also been arrested along with his then partner, Sergio Mora Carrasco, alias El Yeyo, also a historic figure in the world of drug trafficking in Andalusia.