The PSP has dismantled a drug trafficking network in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Azores, resulting in the arrest of five men and one woman aged between 24 and 48, police said today.
According to a statement from the PSP, the operation “was launched following several attacks by patrol officers on people suspected of criminal activity over the past few months.”
Meanwhile, “extensive evidence has been collected indicating the existence of a drug trafficking cell operating in the parish of Ribeirinha,” the PSP reports.
The PSP explains that it “organised a large-scale police operation involving approximately 40 police officers, which enabled several simultaneous searches to be carried out in the homes and vehicles of the suspects”, culminating in “the seizure of several doses of drugs, suspicious amounts of money, illegal weapons, and the arrest of all the persons involved”.
Five of the detained men were placed in preventive detention, and the detainee was subject to a coercive measure in the form of mandatory presentation to the authorities.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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