The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will try six defendants next week in Lanzarote for introducing "significant quantities" of drugs through the coast of Lanzarote, specifically hashish and cocaine, using inflatable boats. The Prosecutor's Office seeks to reach an agreement with the defendants before the oral trial is held.
According to the Prosecutor's Office's indictment, three of the defendants A.L.E., E.F.D. and A.T.F.O., were the alleged perpetrators and those who were dedicated to introducing these large quantities of drugs on the island.
The Public Ministry accuses them of going in the early morning of January 9, 2024 to the Cantería beach, in Órzola, to collect the drugs. After that, they allegedly used two cars, a Chevrolet and a Citroen Berlingo, to a garage located on Jose Alonso street, located between the Arrecife neighborhoods of Valterra and Los Alonso.
The Prosecutor's Office points out that this garage, in the same building as the residence of one of the defendants, was the final storage place for the drugs, from where they allegedly distributed and sold them.
According to the information that La Voz was able to obtain at the time, one of the defendants is an expert fisherman in the area and a great connoisseur of the sea, who allegedly used his boats to go to meeting points in the high seas to collect the drugs that he would later take to the coast.
Among the reasons for suspicion of the agents, the police highlighted the high standard of living they led despite the fact that many of them did not have paid jobs.
Searches in Arrecife, Teguise and Tinajo
In the framework of this investigation, up to three rounds of searches were carried out. First, the police searched the house and storage room of the house on Jose Alonso street, in Arrecife, the two vehicles allegedly used to transport the drugs from Órzola to the capital of Lanzarote, as well as another property in El Cuchillo (Tinajo), and a last one in Rafael Alberti street (Tahíche).
In these operations they intercepted 256 kilograms of cannabis resin and one kilogram of cocaine. In total, the substances have a value of 491,363.99 euros in the case of hashish and 113,652 euros in the case of cocaine. In addition, the agents also found 63,258 euros in cash, which, according to the Prosecutor's Office, come from the illicit sale of drugs.
In addition, in the garage of the houses in Arrecife they searched the interior of a Renault Kangoo, where they located 55.7 kilograms of cannabis, worth 107,942 euros. This finding led to new searches.
The Court authorized a second round of inspections. On this occasion, the police searched the home of the defendant A.F.B.D., located on Calderón de la Barca street (Tahíche), where they seized 69.18 grams of cocaine and 25.7 grams of hashish. In total, the drugs amounted to about 7,000 euros. In addition, they searched a house on El Salvador street (Arrecife), residence of J.C.B.R., and in which they located 78.66 grams of hashish, worth 528 euros.
The third round of searches authorized by the Court allowed entry into another house on Jose Alonso street, owned by the father of the defendant A.L.E. In this house they located hashish, heroin, cocaine worth 14,600 euros, as well as 10,210 euros in cash and a luxury watch of the brand Breitling 1.884.
In this operation, a semi-rigid zodiac-type boat, a Chevrolet brand vehicle, a Renault Kangoo, a Toyota Land Cruiser, all owned by A.L.E., as well as a Citroen Berlingo and a Toyota Land Cruiser, owned by E.F.D. were also seized.
Penalties of up to eight years and fines of 100,000 euros
The Prosecutor's Office accuses A.L.E., E.F.D. and A.T.F.O. of being the main perpetrators of crimes against public health in its modality of substances that cause serious damage to health. For each of them, it requests eight years in prison, special disqualification for the exercise of the right to passive suffrage and a fine of 100,000 euros.
Meanwhile, it attributes to the other three defendants A.F.B.D., J.C.B.R. and B.E. the co-authorship of a crime against public health.
For B.E. it requests four years and five months in prison, special disqualification for the exercise of the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence and a fine of 20,000 euros. In the case of A.F.B.D. it requests a sentence of four years in prison, special disqualification for the exercise of the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence and a fine of 9,000 euros.
Finally, for J.C.B.R., the only defendant in the modality of substances that do not cause serious damage to health, it asks for two years in prison, special disqualification to exercise passive suffrage during the sentence and a fine of 700 euros.
