The Prosecutor's Office is asking for a sentence of four and a half years in prison for a defendant accused of selling 20.03 grams of cocaine in Arrecife, who will be tried by the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court next Tuesday, January 26, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
According to the indictment, the events took place at around 4:30 p.m. on July 29, 2014, in the vicinity of the playground located on Juana de Arco street in the capital of Lanzarote.
There, the Public Prosecutor's Office maintains that, "with the purpose of obtaining an illicit patrimonial benefit and with total disregard for individual and collective health", E.R.M. sold another person 20.03 grams of cocaine with "an average richness of 59.63%". The drug would have reached "a value of 1,764.11 euros" on the illicit market.
At the time of his arrest, the defendant was seized 1,498.26 euros, "proceeding from his illicit activity."
The Prosecutor's Office considers that the events constitute a crime against public health, in its form of substances that cause serious damage to health. In addition to a prison sentence of four years and six months, it also requests a fine of 5,022.33 euros for the accused, "with the subsidiary personal responsibility of three months in prison."
