Toulouse: the employee played the dealer with fake cocaine
Assaulted, a Toulousain asked for help from the police at the start of the week. This narcotics lover, discreet dealer, above all underlined serious concerns. He has just been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
One intervention among others, these calls for help which mobilize the Toulouse police, especially on weekends. Only at the beginning of the week, in the night from Sunday to Monday, when the police arrived in an apartment near Place Esquirol, in Toulouse, they certainly listened to the victim’s explanations but they also spotted a “heap” of white powder on a table. Cocaine? The police suspected him.
The members of the anti-crime brigade then decided to discreetly monitor this address to check if they noticed suspicious round trips. And their suspicions were confirmed. They therefore decided to conduct a search, with the support of investigators from the narcotics unit of the security. Assisted by Nelko, a specialized dog who reacted very quickly in front of the door of the accommodation, they discovered cannabis, 130 grams of grass and resin, 180 g of white powder, account sheets and, above all, €17,000. in cash hidden in a planter on the balcony.
The unique defense a placement under bracelet
Exploitation of the suspect’s phone uncovered a Telegram conversation with prices for cannabis, cocaine and approximately thirty identified customers. On the other hand, the analysis of the powder did not show that it was cocaine. Did this dealer seek to deceive his clients as he suggested to the investigators? He also cleared himself a lot about the role of a supposed accomplice.
Presented to the prosecutor’s office this Friday morning, this 25-year-old supermarket employee was to be tried by the Toulouse criminal court in the context of immediate comparisons. But that was before the defense intervened. “This boy has no criminal record. A comparison on the prior recognition of competence was perfectly appropriate”, explains his lawyer, Me Pierre Debuisson. No public hearing for the dealer but a sentence of 18 months in prison, 8 of which are probationary. The firm part will be done under an electronic bracelet. The court seized the €17,000.