Drug trafficking dominated in several locations in the municipalities of Odemira and Odeceixe. One of the defendants filmed himself showing the banknotes and the narcotics. Two of the three defendants are in pre-trial detention..
Three individuals, aged between 25 and 59 year old, residents in Odemira, two of whom were held in the Beja Prison, begin this Tuesday to be tried for being part of a drug sales network that supplied consumers in several locations in that Alentejo municipality and also in the neighboring Odeceixe, already in the Algarve.
According to the prosecutor's order (MP) of Odemira to which Lidador Notícias (LN) We had access, the three individuals were caught in GNR surveillance “selling different types of narcotics to various people, with more or less predefined regularity, which varied between selling weekly or three times a month”.
The Prosecutor of the MP responsible for the investigation describes that Xavier V., the youngest of the defendants, “he was frequently filmed handling huge amounts of banknotes and large amounts of narcotic product., which revealed an exhibitionist character”, adding the magistrate that he “performed purchases/sales by the kilo, carrying out transactions of 4.500 euros”, accused.
In the indictment, it is also mentioned that despite receiving little more than 816 euros monthly at the company where I worked, “I spent money in bars where I spent more than 100 euros a night and bought a BMW, -end, who registered in the name of the father”.
Detained at 13 July 2021, had in his possession or disseminated in different places in the house where he lived with his parents, various amounts and types of drug, having been seized: 390,335 grams of cannabis, 57,322 grams of cocaine, 36 pills and 9,125 grams of MDMA, 1.110 euros in cash and various material intended for trafficking, as was the case with three precision balances.
Louis F., of 47 year old, resident in Brejão (Odemira), the same location as Xavier, and also he in preventive detention, defendants that the MP defines “have a relationship of seller/buyer and even sharing of narcotics, on the day of his arrest, he was seized 1,149 grams of cannabis and 0,152 grams of cocaine, Besides 33 euros and, notes and various cell phones.
He was also the owner of a firearm transformed to 6,35 mm, other compressed air gauge .22, a carbine and 127 22LR caliber ammunition and an 8mm pistol magazine, with ammunition 6,35 mm. On the other hand, António T., of 59 year old, Cape Verde, with Portuguese nationality, the only in freedom, They were seized 2,100 grams of cannabis and 270 euros in cash.
The three individuals are charged with a crime of drug trafficking., while Luís is still liable for the crime of possession of a prohibited weapon, with the accessory penalty of prohibition of possession of weapons.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
