A drone used to smuggle more than a kilo of hashish into a prison on the Costa del Sol has been intercepted by police.

The operation took place at Alhaurin de la Torre prison, where staff discovered a small remote-controlled aircraft that had allegedly been used to deliver the drugs to an inmate.

According to prison sources cited by Canal Sur, the drone had successfully dropped more than one kilogram of hashish inside the prison grounds before being located in the inmate’s cell.

Authorities believe the drugs were intended for distribution among other prisoners.

The inmate has already been questioned by the prison’s monitoring and control unit, which is now preparing a report for the duty court as part of a potential drug trafficking investigation.

Investigators believe previous shipments could have been carried out using the same method.

Attention has now turned to identifying the person outside the prison who operated the drone.

Investigators are seeking to establish who controlled the aircraft, how the drop was organised and whether a wider network was involved in smuggling drugs into the prison.

The case highlights a growing challenge facing prisons across Spain and Europe, where criminal networks have increasingly turned to drones to bypass traditional security measures and deliver contraband directly into secure facilities.

The judicial investigation remains ongoing.