Thessaloniki: A criminal organization trafficked almost 44 kg of cannabis (PHOTO)
They were arrested yesterday (17-11-2022) at noon, in areas of Thessaloniki, in the context of business organizations, by police officers of the Drama Security Department, five (5) members of a criminal organization, of the three foreigners and two nationals, who were active in drug trafficking in the wider area of Thessaloniki.
A criminal case was filed against the arrested persons for the offenses of criminal organization, storage, trafficking and possession of narcotic substances as the case may be.
More specifically, after appropriate use of information about drug trafficking by the perpetrators, the police officers carried out a coordinated operation, which was attended by the police drug dog “VERA”.
During this, the police located an I.X.E. in the area of Thessaloniki. car, which had previously been parked by a foreigner and at the moment when together with the other two foreigners and one citizen they tried to pick it up, they were stopped and arrested, as a search carried out inside the vehicle found 37 packages of raw cannabis, totaling . weighing 41 kg and 764 grams.
As part of the operation, the police officers carried out searches in houses kept by the perpetrators as places to store and hide the drugs, where they identified and arrested the fifth perpetrator, while inside the houses they also found:
4 nylon packages and 1 glass container with raw cannabis, total weight 2 kg and 90.1 grams,
5 nylon packages with cocaine, total weight 123.2 grams and
1 precision electronic scale.
A total of 43 kilograms and 854.1 grams of raw cannabis, 123.2 grams of cocaine, 1 precision electronic scale, the vehicle used by the perpetrators as a means of transporting the drugs, the sum of 4,675 euros and telephones were confiscated.
Those arrested will be taken to the competent Prosecutor, while the pre-investigation work is being carried out by the Drama Security Department.