PSP arrested 22 drug traffickers on Sunday morning, in the neighborhood of the Red Cross in Lumiar district of Lisbon. This was the result of an investigation that lasted eight months and involved about 100 police officers.
Detainees are aged between 17 and 63 years. Nineteen are men and three are women, and among the 22, only one has Portuguese nationality, is Cape Verde.
devoted itself to the direct sale of heroin, cocaine and hashish in the neighborhood of the Red Cross, in particular, near a leisure center for young people of the Parish of Lumiar, a kindergarten, a school of 1 cycle and a school of elementary and secondary education.
“It was a situation that deserved special attention from us because it created a sense of insecurity and transmission that was made in visual terms was not positive,” said the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of Lisbon, sub-intendant Silva Resende.
same officer stated that, although this is considered an “urgent” operation took eight months to be performed “in order to leave no traces of this group.” Resendo Silva added that “it is not an offshoot of another organization” and that the area of ??Alta de Lisboa got rid of “one of the main groups [traffickers], with greater activity and larger city of Lisbon.”
The operation was developed by the 3rd Squadron of Criminal Investigation (EIC) of Lisbon, which integrates the Criminal Investigation Division of Lisbon.
Early Sunday morning, around 8:45, officers of PSP, which were on the ground to observe the alleged drug dealers, registered their first sale to a customer in the neighborhood of the Red Cross. Shortly thereafter, and after having collected the search warrants, the PSP officers made a total of 25 house searches, which involved the District Red Cross, other areas of Lumiar and Trafaria (concelhod and Almada).
13,000 euros were seized cash, two cars, high cylinder, 14 kilograms of hashish, 700 grams of heroin, 100 grams of cocaine, four firearms (shotgun two shotguns and two pistols 6.35 mm and 9 mm), 383 ammunition, one bulletproof vest, two cars and other equipment, such as cameras, precision balances, a TV and three laptops.
were held on Monday aoTribunal gifts of Criminal Procedure Lisbon for the 1st Judicial Interrogation and application of coercive measures, which should be known by late afternoon.
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