The Councilor for Public Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez Martínez, has announced a new action of interest starring agents of the Local Police of Lorca, who have managed to arrest two people for having a search and detention order in force , one of them, and for an alleged crime against public health and drug trafficking, the other.
The City Council has indicated that "within the security prevention plans carried out by different units of the Local Police Corps, a special operation was launched several weeks ago, having knowledge, thanks to citizen collaboration, of the existence of an alleged point of sale of drugs retail located in the district of Tercia, it had created some social alarm, both in this deputation and in the neighbor of La Hoya.
"Given this information, the agents established for several weeks a large surveillance device around the person who ran said point of sale, checking how many vehicles and people came to see him, apparently, to acquire drugs. It was apparently simple: sometimes the buyers approached the address, after contact with the detainee, and after a brief interview they made the exchange of substance for money, at other times it was the detainee who moved to different parts of the municipality to sell the substance "
The mayor has reported that "the investigation was complex and was hampered by the configuration of the land where the house was located, as well as by the strong security measures used by the perpetrator, but they were able to verify that the individual supplied drugs Basically cocaine, to consumers in the area, once all the evidence and data confirming the alleged existence of a crime against public health and drug trafficking were obtained, a device was established that resulted in the seizure of a certain amount of cocaine. cocaine on the rock and the arrest of the alleged perpetrator, JSS, 58 years old, who has numerous records and arrests for drug trafficking, as a result of this action also arrested a person of German nationality who had a search and detention order issued by a Court of Almeria was enforced, and the detainees were placed at the disposal of the
judicial, which ordered the imprisonment of the detainee related to the alleged crime against public health and drug trafficking. "
Pérez Martínez has described the operation as "a new success of the Local Police of Lorca that demonstrates its ability to carry out actions of such importance as this has allowed to dismantle a point of retail sales, seize substances that cause serious damage to health and arrest the alleged perpetrators of crime, for all of which we offer our congratulations to the participating agents and units for contributing to make Lorca a safer city. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca