Moura: Seven people start today to be judged in Beja, for drug trafficking.
Group of traffickers, including official authority, trial opens today at the Court of Beja. Five are in custody. Students were the “target Audience” the defendants.
Two brothers, one of them a minor, an uncle and the companion of the oldest of the brothers, They are among the seven defendants, aged between 17 and 45 year old, all natural and living in Moura, start today to be tried in the Criminal Court of Beja accused coauthored they have committed a drug trafficking crime.
About four of the defendants criminal frame is aggravated and one of them is still charged with a gun crime detention prohibited. Five of the seven defendants are in custody. Students of Secondary Schools and Moura Professional, were the "target audience" group that was dedicated to the sale of drugs at the schools.
The group was arrested on three occasions. The first five, including a woman who was pregnant and the lowest in March 2018, a few days later a sixth element and at the end of May, the oldest member of the group, employee Moura Chamber, Uncle group leader, that worked with the "wholesaler" of narcotic.
The brain of the group in terms of sales, Fábio, had as collaborators Brother, Filipe, the youngest of the defendants, and companion, Elsa, and enjoyed the fact that their workplace be very busy, the fuel station Galp, Moura, to "supply" retailers and consumers. only between 17 October and 2017 and 18 March 2018, the GNR NIC elements investigating the group, They witnessed directly at gas station, 50 "Supply" of Elsa Fabio, to "ensure that it would always hashish in their power to ensure the transactions".
António, the official city council, served as a repository of high amounts of cannabis acquired by the group. When he was arrested, the defendant had in his house 9.268 doses of hashish.
To traffickers who also devoted to cannabis cultivation, They were seized greenhouses and manuals and other products by post, They were bought in Spain.
The trio had the "target audience" the student population of the city of Moura, hence most 40 enrolled prosecution witnesses, are underage students. The investigation of the GNR lasted nine months and to dismantle the group, They were carried out eleven searches, seven and four non-domiciliary domiciliary.
Material seized
Narcotics: 11.985 doses of hashish, 69 doses of cocaine, two kilograms of cannabis and 848 doses, 39 plants and 7 cannabis seeds
Material: four greenhouses, equipped with lighting system, ventilation, Irrigation dropwise, vases and clocks timers and two precision scales.
Arms: two firearms and twelve knives
Money: 1.610 euro cash
other goods: two motor vehicles, five mobile phones and four computers
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
