A defendant accused of the crime of possessing two weapons has stated during the trial that took place this Wednesday in the Provincial Court of Tenerife, that he acquired them at the Guaza flea market in Arona thinking they were blank guns and that at the bottom of the bag in which they were, he discovered that there were 95 bullets.
The hearing is the first separate piece of a robbery plot in the north of Tenerife attributed to five people, and in this case, it has the particularity of focusing on the possession of about 300 grams of cocaine with a value of 22,000 euros and the possession of weapons without permission.
The police intervention took place on April 10, 2024, in a building in the south of Tenerife, from which moment the defendant is in a situation of provisional imprisonment.
The Prosecutor's Office maintains its request for three years for the first of these crimes and one and a half years for the second, while the defense requests the acquittal of the first and would accept one year for the second.
The police officers who intervened in the entry of the domicile said that in the patio they found a block of cocaine wrapped in a shirt whose DNA corresponded in 99.9% to the defendant.
The agents are convinced that the wrapping was thrown when they heard that the agents were going to carry out the search while the pistols were on top of a closet.
The expert reports determined that they were two German revolvers, one of which had been modified but it was impossible to specify the last date on which they could have been used.
Inside the domicile, the rest of the cocaine was found, which according to the defendant was for his own consumption since he has been a drug addict since 2015, for which he has received hospital treatment on several occasions.
He denied that he was engaged in the sale of narcotics and that he used cocaine to work at night as a doorman of a nightclub and justified that the shirt in which the drug appeared wrapped in the patio had his DNA because it was a building of squatters in which people constantly entered and left all the apartments.
He has stated that he resided in another property in the south of Tenerife with his partner but that that night he had stayed in the property because “a plan” had arisen with another woman with whom he was at the time of the search.
The agents of the National Police and Civil Guard who intervened in the entry to the house highlighted the collaboration shown by the detainee from the first moment.
The five defendants accused of committing the robberies in the north would have acted from the end of 2022 until April 2024, when they were arrested and entered provisional imprisonment, but at the time it was ruled out that they acted as a criminal organization.
The operation began after the Civil Guard received information that they were dedicated to stealing jewelry, antique coins, electronic devices and money after forcing the locks.
In some cases they attacked the owners, in others they did not achieve their purpose and in some more they stole amounts that reached 8,000 euros until totaling 21 criminal actions.
The central trial is expected to be held in the coming months and the participation of up to 60 witnesses is planned in it.
