The judge sends 'Tweety', the most wanted criminal in Ceuta, to prison

The judge has ordered the entry into prison of the most wanted criminal, I. M., known as Tweety, as a result of the events that occurred in 2022 with different episodes of violence in the Príncipe neighborhood. After spending three days in the cells of the Estepona police station (Málaga) and after a police deployment for his transfer to Ceuta, the head of the Investigating Court No. 5 of the autonomous city has ordered the imprisonment of this alleged drug trafficker after being arrested by the National Police last Friday.

The transfer has taken place under a large security device organized by the Higher Police Headquarters from the port of Ceuta, where it has disembarked from Malaga. Police sources consulted by EL MUNDO report that the Estepona Court ordered the extension of the detention of the alleged criminal before being transferred to the autonomous city to be brought before the judge.

Tweety appears as the alleged leader of one of the gangs that clashed in the peripheral neighborhoods of Ceuta after the murder of the 16-year-old teenager Ibrahim Bufelham in April last year. Tayena, another of the leaders, was shot dead last week by one of the supposed men he trusted, who was arrested by the Civil Guard hours later. Thus, one of the dangerous criminal gangs that operate in the autonomous city is decapitated.

The city of Ceuta was on edge after it was discovered that this dangerous criminal had fled the city and his whereabouts were unknown.

As confirmed by sources of the investigation, the judge sends Tweety to communicated prison and without bail. He is accused of several crimes of injury, illegal possession of weapons and criminal organization.

In charge of the operation was the superior chief of the National Police in Ceuta, Javier Nogueroles. The investigation has been carried out by the Ceuta Drug and Organized Crime Unit (UDYCO) and the Special Response Group for Organized Crime (GRECO) of agents attached to the Malaga National Police, who located and captured Tweety in the Costa del Sol last Friday. In what is known as Operation Lead, special units of the National Police (GOES) were deployed to support the investigation groups.

Ceuta police had been working hard to track down the suspect and turn him over to the judge before he could do any more damage.. However, after the statement this morning where the charges have been read to him stating that 'Tweety' was involved in the shooting that occurred in a cafeteria in the El Príncipe neighborhood in July 2022, among other incidents that put police investigation groups to work and activating what is known as 'Operation Lead', which displaced UIP units from all parts of Spain, apart from the UPR from the Ceuta Police Headquarters.