Vidigueira: Tried for drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons.
An individual 45 year old, for some years he lived in Vidigueira, where he devoted himself to the sale of cannabis and cocaine, to be held by GNR, It began yesterday to be tried in the Central Criminal Court of the Court of Beja.
The facts took place between January and March 2016, having been arrested in the individual dubbed "Day of lies", 1 April, in full National Road 114, the output of A6, near Montemor-o-Novo, while returning home after purchasing drugs in Lisbon.
The military core of Criminal Investigation (NIC) Territorial Detachment of Beja, They have long followed the suspect and had his mobile phone bugged, which allowed them to set up the capture operation, before reaching home.
When it approached the wheel of a powerful car Lexus, António J., I was with, 1025 individual doses of hashish, 760 euro cash, with a knife 24 centimeters long and a mobile phone. The next day was made a house search where they were seized 63 Individual doses of cocaine and a gun caliber .32 Long, not being the holder of license to use and carry firearms.
According to the order for prosecution of the prosecution of Cuba, "between 12 January and 29 March 2016, the defendant made / received from drug buyers, a total of 4840 telephone calls from your mobile phone ".
The prosecutor who was responsible for the prosecution declared forfeited to the State, all goods and objects that were the accused. The Lexus car that had also been seized on the individual's detention, It was the target of a resource, which led the MP to return it to its rightful owner. After the arrest and having been released, the defendant left the region, was first abroad and for some time that lies in the municipality of Sintra.
António J., He did not ask for the instruction of opening the process, legal expedient to avoid trial, He is accused of a crime of a drug trafficking and two prohibited weapon detention, trial with the intervention of a Collective Court, risking sentence of more than five years in prison.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
