House arrest and periodic representations of alleged drug traffickers in Ponta Delgada

One man was placed under house arrest and another was subject to periodic presentations to the authorities on suspicion of committing a crime related to drug trafficking in Sao Miguel, Azores, following a patrol, the PSP reported this Monday.

According to the PSP Azores regional command, two men, aged 56 and 23, were arrested as a result of preventive patrols carried out by the police anti-crime brigade “in areas associated with drug use and trafficking in the parish.” Livramento, municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of San Miguel.

PSP said in a statement that during the action “a highly suspicious situation was discovered, indicating an ongoing drug transaction.”

At the time, the “drug addict who had just received the drug” from the two suspects was still trying to “evade authorities” but was “quickly intercepted based on evidence.”

During the operation, the PSP also searched the car in which the suspects were located, seizing about 55 individual doses of heroin, about 40 doses of a synthetic drug and 330 euros.

According to the PSP, after being questioned by a criminal investigation judge at the Ponta Delgada court, one of the two suspected drug traffickers was subject to a coercive measure of “periodic appearances before the authorities, and the other was placed under house arrest.”