Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the waterrate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid.
In addition to about 250 buyback events planned over the next three months, police have also contacted dealers in an effort to collect weapons through them.
Last year he locked up and seized assets from hundreds of businessmen, officials and princes in an anti-corruption drive that lacked even a hint of due process.
Police in Spain have confiscated more than 9 tons of cocaine in the southern port of Algeciras in what authorities say is the largest seizure of the drug in 5 years.