The Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has confirmed the conviction of nine people for trafficking cocaine and heroin in Lanzarote. The prison sentences range from three to six and a half years for crimes against public health.
The TSJC has thus dismissed the appeals filed by four members of this organized group, which was not convicted of belonging to a criminal organization, but which operated in a "professionalized" manner.
The judicial resolution of the appeal has stated that the sentences were "lenient", taking into account that it was large and varied quantities of drugs, and has highlighted that even so four people decided to appeal their conviction.
The Canary Islands court has stated that the appeals were "as weak in their content as they were long in their development".
Opening of disciplinary proceedings against a lawyer
In addition, he has ordered the opening of a separate piece to open disciplinary proceedings against one of the lawyers for "serious irregularities" in citing judgments that do not exist in the appeals filed before the court. At the same time, he accuses the lawyer of relying on a procedural situation "alien to reality," by denouncing that documentation that did exist was omitted.
The events date back to the year 2022, when between the months of April and December the Narcotics Group of the Judicial Police of the Arrecife Station of the National Police Corps began to investigate a group of people who were introducing and distributing drugs on the island.
The sentence that has been anonymously disseminated states that the convicted individual known as El Pirata was in charge of organizing the trips to transport the drug to Lanzarote and then distributing it around the island. Among other things, he is held responsible for devising the plan for another of the convicted individuals, who acted as a mule, to board a plane from Gran Canaria with one hundred capsules of cocaine, totaling almost a kilo of cocaine. The total value of that drug amounted to 93,700 euros.
The judicial ruling records as proven that three of those convicted were in charge of receiving the substance, selling it directly, and also distributing it so that other people would sell it at retail.
Eight homes registered in Arrecife
The Court of Instruction number 2 of Arrecife ordered several searches in eight properties in the capital of Lanzarote. Among them, homes were searched on León y Castillo, Andalucía, Igualdad, Sevilla, Ruiz de Alarcón, Muyay, San Juan de la Cruz, Malagueña, and Guinea Ecuatorial streets.
In those records, different quantities of cocaine and heroin, televisions, a camera, two laptops, a tablet, dozens of mobile phones, several passports, a car, and more than 55,000 euros in cash were found.