Section Six of the Provincial Court will judge on September 16 an accused of carrying about 30 grams of cocaine in Puerto del Carmen. The Public Prosecutor's Office requests a sentence of four years and six months in prison for D.A.B.
According to the indictment, the events took place on June 13, 2017 on Avenida de las Playas in the tourist town, where the accused "was carrying 29.26 grams of cocaine" in the "inside a bag, located in turn in the passenger seat" of a vehicle, owned by another person.
The Prosecutor's Office maintains that the drug "was intended for subsequent distribution to third parties" and indicates that, having "a purity of 75.07%", it would have reached "a value of 2,970.33 euros" in the illicit market.
In addition to requesting a prison sentence of four and a half years for a crime against public health in its modality of substances that cause serious damage to health, the Public Prosecutor's Office asks that the accused be imposed a fine of 5,940 euros, with the subsidiary responsibility of three months of deprivation of liberty.
The accused has a previous conviction that the Criminal Court number 1 of Vigo imposed on him in 2016 for a crime of robbery with force in a house. For these events he was sentenced to six months in prison, although the sentence was suspended for a period of two years. However, these criminal records are not computable for the purposes of recidivism.
