National Police agents arrested a 33-year-old man from Guinea Bissau with a criminal record at the port of Los Mármoles as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health. The detainee had 66 capsules seized, 45 of them inside his body and another 21 in his luggage, with a total weight of 837 grams of cocaine.
The National Police explains that last May, in one of the routine checks carried out on a ship dedicated to transporting passengers between islands, this passenger was intercepted, who was “quite nervous, not responding coherently to the questions asked” by the agents.
For this reason, he was transferred to police facilities for a more exhaustive check. During the control of his luggage, two tetrabriks with 21 cocaine capsules inside were seized. Subsequently, and due to the agents' suspicion that he might contain narcotic substances in his body, a radiological test was requested, which determined that he was carrying more capsules inside his body.
Once the corresponding procedures were completed, the detainee was placed at the disposal of the Investigating Court number 2 of Arrecife, which ordered his immediate imprisonment.
The National Police recalls that, in its work to prevent drug trafficking, it has been carrying out preventive controls at the Lanzarote airport. "As a consequence of the pressure exerted at the aerodrome, those responsible for this type of criminal act have been forced to use the sea route as an alternative to introduce narcotic substances into the island, so controls are being intensified in the port of Los Mármoles," the police force points out.
