A man was taken into custody after cutting off an electronic bracelet he was wearing as he was “severely charged” with a drug-trafficking offense in the municipality of Lagoa in the Azores, it was revealed this Wednesday .
PSP explains in a press release that it detained the 36-year-old man “after a warning issued by the electronic surveillance service of the General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services” that the defendant was “applied to coercive measures.” obliged to stay in the house”, was “on the run in an unknown direction” after he “cut off the electronic bracelet”.
Following a police operation in the village of Agua de Pau, in the municipality of Lagoa, PSP investigators found a man “inside a barn” after he had been “on the run for three days,” according to the PSP Regional Command.
According to the PSP, the detainee was present before the Ponta Delgada criminal judge on the island of San Miguel, who applied a “coercive measure of pre-trial detention.”