(Updated) Cuba: Four of the eleven accused in drug case in custody.
Four of the eleven defendants arrested in the mega-operation of the GNR were in custody. Prisoners are four men. The remaining defendants are with periodic presentations.
Four of the eleven detainees, eight men and three women, early Sunday morning by GNR a mega-operation to combat drug trafficking, They were in custody. Individuals, aged 21 and 31 year old, one of which has already served jail time, They are accused of drug trafficking crime, punishable under Article 21 of the CPP, with imprisonment of 4 a 12 year old, and one of the counterfeit crossing crime.
The remaining defendants, the youngest 17 year old, including three women, They were subject to periodic presentations to local area authorities and prohibition of contacts between them.
Early Sunday morning, fifty military of several services of the National Republican Guard (GNR), Searches carried out nineteen, thirteen domiciliary six vehicles, in Cuba, which was the core group, Aljustrel and Ferreira do Alentejo.
Cocaine was seized hashish, MDMA, cold steel, money, Car, mobile phones, computers and 3.580 euros in counterfeit notes that the main accused "passed" in the local market.
Present on Monday the Court of Cuba, all defendants are forwarded to silence, having the four defendants who have been applied coercion measure more heavily, data entry Prison Beja, to 00,40 Tuesday.
The authorities will investigate the link between a couple who, in mid-November last year, He was arrested in Cuba and sent to custody, who had in his possession 1.300 euros in counterfeit notes and followed the same path (Aljustrel, Ferreira do Alentejo e Cuba) to pass some of the counterfeits.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
