Couple uses child to traffic eight kilos of cocaine from Brazil to Portugal
A minor was placed in the care of an institution after his mother’s detention. PJ seized 12 kilos of cocaine at Lisbon Airport in just four days. In another case, a drug dealer infected with covid-19 violated confinement to collect drugs.
A couple and a child trying to evade the authorities at Humberto Delgado Airport, in Lisbon, and introduce eight kilos of cocaine into Portugal, but ended up being detained by the Judiciary Police (PJ). The “post office” was called into preventive detention, which forced the minor to be placed in the care of an institution. This was one of three drug trafficking cases found, in just four days, by the Judiciary at Lisbon’s airport, which allowed the seizure of 12 kilos of cocaine. In another case, a drug dealer infected with covid-19 violated the confinement to go to a hotel to collect more than three kilos of cocaine.
It was between Tuesday and Friday of last week that the PJ’s National Unit to Combat Drug Trafficking identified and detained five traffickers, aged between 23 and 44 years, and seized the 12 kilos of cocaine, which arrived in Portugal through commercial flights from Brazil.