Three people were placed in preventive detention, and two with identification and length of residence, as they were suspected of belonging to an alleged drug trafficking ring that operated in São Jorge in the Azores, PSP reported this Thursday.
According to the PSP regional command, the suspects detained “at the crime scene” on July 9 are four men aged 24 to 57 and a woman aged 48.
The police believe that “it was possible to dismantle the drug trafficking network operating in the municipality of Velas” after an investigation that took place “for several months”.
It was possible to seize “2,202 individual doses of hashish, 128 individual doses of ready-to-use cannabis, a sum of money in the amount of 3,636.06 euros, reproductions of firearms and other weapons”, as well as “objects related to illicit trafficking,” he adds. for PSP in the press release.
The network allegedly operated from two residences located in the village of Velas, a place “where a significant number of consumers went solely for the purpose of purchasing the drug,” PSP adds.
The alleged organized group was led by two suspects who acted in cooperation with two other elements responsible for the storage of the product and a third suspect who brought the drug by sea to the island of São Jorge.
During this operation, two arrest warrants outside the crime scene, three house search and seizure warrants, and two outside house search warrants in the municipality of Velas were served. A house search warrant was also served in the municipality of Praia da Vitoria on the island of Terceira.
The detainees were present at the first judicial interrogation at the Velas judicial court.
The operation involved the police from the Velas police station, in close cooperation with the police stations of Calheta (São Jorge), the police stations for criminal investigations from Angra do Heroismo and Praia da Vitória (both on the island of Terceira) and the Cinematographic Task Force Forsa. Destakada from the special police unit.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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