Drug ring in Thessaloniki with a makeshift laboratory – Two…
Improvised processing “laboratory” and drug counterfeiting were set up in the Attica area by a 23-year-old man and a woman of his same agewho were arrested by police officers of the General Affairs Department of the Narcotics Prosecution Sub-Directorate of Thessaloniki.
A case file was filed against the 23-year-old foreigner and his local girlfriend, as they are alleged as members of an organized criminal occupation group and falsification-standardization of quantities drugs substances for the purpose of their proliferation and their trafficking within the Greek territory.
The two arrests are a continuation of a previous police operation, in June 2022, in which a 27-year-old citizen and two foreign women, aged 29 and 49, were arrested, as members of an organized ring of possession, transport, concealment-storage and trafficking of large quantities of drugs.
According to the police, from the ongoing investigation it emerged that the current arrestees continued the activity of the criminal group, the suppliers of high-strength heroin, which were then adulterated with adulterants, in the area they had set up as an improvised “laboratory”, with the aim of the multiplication of quantities and their further movement mainly in areas of Athens and Thessaloniki.
How were they located?
In this context, in the evening hours of Monday 24/10 the two arrested were located in the Attica area and from the investigation carried out in the “laboratory” the following were found and seized:
A propane bottle connected to a gas eye, a pot with 5 bundles of heroin weighing a total of 2,524 grams, a precision scale, various utensils used to mix the substances, 70 bags of food packaging and 2 mobile phones, which were used for the crimes.
In addition, it is noted that the 23-year-old attempted to flee the scene on foot and strongly resisted arrest, while he had a Police Identification Card with his photo and the other person’s information in his possession, which he used to avoid arrest, as 2 arrest warrants were pending against him for criminal gang and violations of the Law on Addictive Substances.
Those arrested will be taken to the competent prosecutor.
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