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CostaBlancaPeople 25th April - 1st May 2023
25th april - 1st MaY 2023 - edition 989
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Three arrested at Guardamar drug house
Guardia Civil officers have arrested three people for selling and facilitating the consumption of drugs from a
house in Guardamar del segura. the detainees have been charged with crimes against public health for drug
trafficking and belonging to a criminal group. the investigation, code named operation pinguis, began in september 2022, when police received an anonymous tip-off from a local resident about a property being used as a ‘drughouse’ just a few meters from a public children’s play park in the town. as a result of the operation and intelligence gathered, it was found that several of the ‘customers’, in addition to acquiring drugs at the premises, were also staying and takingdrugs inside the house. the on-going surveillance allowed officers to intercept different types of narcotic substances which were seized from the people that had bought
them.as the investigations progressed, all the members of the criminal group were identified – a man and a woman who were a couple and a third person, a man - all of them spaniards between the ages of 35 and 48 years old. two of those identified had a police record for similar crimes. the operation came to ahead 30th March when the property was raided and searched. the three suspects were arrested inside the home and 8 grams of cocaine prepared in doses for sale and consumption, 62 grams of MdMa, 26 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms, a small amount of cash were seized. officers also found several non-prescription pills containing benzodiazepines, as well as equipment
for weighing, processing, distributing and cutting of the drugs. the Guardamar del segura seprona patrol, responsible for animal welfare, was called to the premises when a Moorish tortoise, a species protected by the Convention on international trade in endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), was discovered.