Three men and one woman were forced to stay in the house by remote control because they were suspected of belonging to a “family network” of drug trafficking in Rabo de Peixe in the Azores, it emerged this Friday.
According to the PSP regional command, the arrests of a woman (38 years old) and three men (19, 28 and 30 years old) occurred on Thursday, representing the “culmination of several months of investigation”, which allowed “to root out a family drug trafficking network that was involved in the trade drugs, in fact, on the artery where they lived, in the fishing village of Rabo de Peixe on the northern coast of San Miguel.
According to police, six mobile phones, 120 doses of hashish, 172 doses of cocaine, 334 doses of heroin, €1,273 in cash and precision scales were seized during the operation.
The PSP statement also said that the detainees attended the first judicial interrogation on Friday, to which a “coercive measure was applied in the form of an obligation to remain in their home using remote control means.”
Collaborating with the Criminal Investigation Brigade (BIC) of Rabo de Peixe in the investigation were members of the Ribeira Grande BIC, the Ponta Delgada Criminal Investigation Unit, the Police Intervention and Inspection Unit and the Cinotécnico Task Force.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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