Justice: Tried four individuals who returned from Spain with more than 32 thousand doses of hashish.


Four individuals, aged between 22 and 28 year old, three residents in the municipality of Leiria and one in Odivelas, today began to be tried in the Court of Beja for the crime of trafficking of sickful. The group that was dedicated to international trafficking, was caught with 32.336 doses of cannabis.

Traffickers, that a few months ago they were being followed by the military of the Criminal Investigation Center (NIC) GNR Aljustrel, were arrested on the afternoon/night of 26 June 2023, Highway in South (A2), South-north, in the zone of that Alentejo village when they returned from Spain of two cars.

The front vehicle, A black VW that made a "beater", where three of the defendants were traveling, They had in their possession 12,464 grams of cannabis and 830 euro cash, while in Mercedes white, traveling 10 kilometers farther, Two packages with 11.950 grams of cannabis and 45 euro cash. In addition to the narcotic, were also seized 7 mobile phones and the two vehicles, in addition to other arrangements linked to trafficking.

Of the four defendants, Only two attended the trial and one of those, the only one who requested the opening of the process and was pronounced, remained in silence. This defendant, According to one of the judges of the collective, has already been tried in Beja for the same type of crime. The only one of the accused who was willing to speak, was in pre -trial detention at the prison of Beja for a year, but, by virtue of, with the return of the case to the instructional phase, the maximum period of that measure of coercion has been exceeded, it was released.

In the morning session of Tuesday the defendant justified that “I had a debt for drug use and had to do this transportation. I didn't know what it was in the car's suitcase â€, explanations that did not convince the magistrates, in the face of the photos in the process and a contact that linked it to a Leiria dealer who is arrested. The thesis that he did not know the other defendants was dismantled when they asked him the contents of a fast food bill, meal, that would have been consumed by the group.

On the day of operation, and given the danger of individuals, in addition to the military from the NIC of Aljustrel, the GNR reinforced the operation with operatives from the Traffic and Investigation Detachments of the Beja Territorial Command (CTBeja) and the CTBEJA Criminal Information and Information Section. This was one of the greatest seizures of hashish made in 2023 by the military of the Beja Territorial Command (CTBeja) of the GNR in operations carried out on the district's roads.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)


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