Spanish drug lord arrested after music video cameo

MADRID: One of Spain’s mostwanted drug traffickers was arrested yesterday after seeming to taunt police by appearing in a reggaeton music video, a police spokesman told AFP.

Francisco Tejon, the leader of the ‘ Los Castanas’ clan, was ‘arrested today at La Linea de la Concepcion,’ a southern city near the border with Gibraltar, the spokesman said.

According to police, Tejon runs a major hashish trafficking network in the southern region of Andalusia with his brother Antonio, who was arrested in June.

Thetwobrothershadpreviously escaped a police operation in late 2016 that resulted in the arrest of 30 suspected members of their gang.

Francisco Tejon recently came back to the police’s attention by making a smiling cameo in a music video of reggaeton singer Clase-A.

In the video, Tejon gets out of a Bentley, enters a house filled with bikini- clad women around a swimming pool and ends up in a room where more scantily clad women are waiting for him.

The video sparked controversy when it was posted on social media and the singer has since taken it down from YouTube.

It “shows the lack of respect (drug traffickers) have for the security forces,” Jose Encinas of the AUGC Guardia Civil association told AFP.

Drug traffickers are operating increasingly in the open in this part of Andalusia, which has high unemployment. They land shipments of drugs on beaches in broad daylight and physically attack police officers. — AFP