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The fall of the Silva Clan, the narcofamily that built an empire around cocaine in Puente de Vallecas, was the end of a ‘foretold death’. Everyone – neighbors and police – knew what was happening in their four homes, fortified with bars and a constant flow of people buying and selling drugs everywhere.
It is now known that their 12 members, of which 11 were parents, children, uncles, and cousins of the same family, operated in very different ways when it came to ‘placing’ the drugs, depending on the needs of each moment: they threw packages with doses out the window, got into the consumers’ own vehicles, trafficked in bars, and even accepted bottles and jugs of olive oil, the liquid gold of our times, in exchange for doses.
Kings of cocaine fall in Vallecas: selling from four fortified drug flats
In November 2024, and based on numerous citizen complaints, investigators confirmed the existence of a family operating from four apartments on the streets Peña Prieta, Marsismas, Doctor Lozano, and Sierra Elvira, very close to schools and parks in the district, in areas frequented by children and families.
They operated with impunity, although closely monitored by police officers, who followed their movements for months until Monday June 16 when they finally put an end to their «narco-business«.
That same day, eight months after the first clue, a joint police operation proceeded to enter and search the four apartments.
In them, they managed to arrest the family clan, consisting of seven men and five women who had made drug distribution their way of life, as no known work activity was attributed to them.
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Investigators seized over 50,000 euros in cash, 290 grams of cocaine, tools for drug trafficking, a firearm and four replicas, as well as knives, a katana, watches, cell phones, and jewelry.
The members were brought before the court as alleged responsible for crimes against public health, belonging to a criminal organization, and receiving stolen goods, as it was also discovered inside the homes that they were keeping stolen items.
Some of them have a history of crimes related to drug trafficking, squatting, property damage, and crimes against public health.
