The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will try next Wednesday, May 28 in Arrecife, R.F.A., known as the gravedigger of Tinajo, for a crime against public health in the form of substances that cause serious harm to health.
The Public Prosecutor requests for the defendant eight years in prison, with special disqualification from the right to passive suffrage for the duration of the sentence and a fine of 91,500 euros. The Prosecutor's Office plans to reach an agreement with the defendant to avoid the holding of the oral trial.
The defendant has cancelled criminal records for robbery, theft, forgery and receiving.
The events date back to December 2023, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, since then the defendant allegedly sold and distributed marijuana and cocaine from his home in Tinajo, in the municipal cemetery and in the town's kennel.
The Prosecutor's Office accuses R.F.A. of using his position as a town hall worker to allegedly supply the drug to "an indiscriminate plurality of people in exchange for money".
As La Voz reported at the time, the police entered his house and the cemetery on February 2, 2024. In the house they located 475 grams of cocaine in three vacuum-packed bags, 342 grams of marijuana, a gram scale and 20,600 euros in banknotes. Meanwhile, in the Tinajo cemetery they located 53 cocaine bowls, "prepared for distribution, as well as a 50 euro note.
The Public Prosecutor's Office states that during the searches 277.58 grams of cannabis and 449 and 38.11 grams of cocaine were also located, with different purities. The investigation shows that the substance could reach around 30,500 euros on the illegal market.
