Pretrial detention for three, two men and a woman, of the four drug dealers arrested from a family network of narcotics traffickers.
An important family drug trafficking network was dismantled last Monday, in Aljustrel which includes the father, son, daughter-in-law and a second cousin. Three were held in custody, two men and the woman. The “patriarch†was released.
A Criminal Instruction Judge (JIC) of the Court of Ourique decreed on Wednesday afternoon the arrest of three individuals, aged between 22 and 40 year old, all natural from Aljustrel, the oldest living in Palmela, accused of the crime of drug trafficking.
A fourth element of 47 year old, also resident in Aljustrel, was released after periodic presentations to the authorities prohibiting contact with the other defendants and with consumers.
In the operation, a fifth individual was also identified for possession of narcotic products, a notice of administrative offense having been drawn up for the possession of the same, having been notified to appear before the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction.
The group dedicated to the sale of narcotic products in the municipalities of Aljustrel, Castro Verde and Palmela, it has been investigated for a long time by the military of the Criminal Investigation Nucleus (NIC) de Aljustrel of the GNR and the family link between the suspects led to a painstaking work by the investigators to act at the “right momentâ€.
The operation complied with 12 search warrants, with emphasis on three housewives, six in vehicles and three in establishments, that took place in the three municipalities where the suspects resided and sold the drug.
after the arrests, one of the detainees felt ill and was transported to the Basic Emergency Service of Castro Verde and from there to the Emergency Service of Hospital de Beja, under GNR escort.
The four involved were apprehended 250 hashish doses and 20 Cocaine, 22 ecstasy tablets, 198 Tablets used as a cutting product, 15 nicotine sachets and three bottles of nitrous oxide. Used in the development of criminal activity, seven mobile phones were taken by the Guard military, five precision scales, a petard, a pair of scissors and six knives. The authorities also seized 3.675 euro cash, 40 pounds in cash, 17 gold and two silver rings, six vehicles and a watercraft, which they consider to result from the sale of narcotics to consumers.
Given the danger of the operation, in addition to the soldiers of the soldiers of the Territorial Command of Beja, this had reinforcements from the Commandos of Setúbal, Évora and the Intervention Unit.
After the preventive detention was decreed, the two men were taken to the Prison in Beja and the woman to Odemira., where they will await trial.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
