The Civil Guard has arrested a 29-year-old man as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health, after attempting to introduce 491 grams of cocaine and hashish into the Tahiche Penitentiary Center.
The events occurred in early March in the vicinity of the Penitentiary Center, when security services observed, through surveillance cameras, how a driver got out of a car and, after approaching the fence that delimits the outer perimeter of the site, "forcefully threw an object over it towards the interior." "Due to the trajectory of the launch, the alleged perpetrator of the events was trying to deposit the package in the courtyard where the inmates were in their walking hours," they point out from the Civil Guard.
The man then left the place in a car in the direction of Arrecife, but minutes later he was intercepted by a Civil Guard patrol that provides services at the Center.
As a result of the events and after an investigation, the Civil Guard was able to relate the detainee to another similar event that occurred on February 28, being able to verify that in the first launch the package reached a weight of 317 grams of hashish and in the second, where the arrest could occur, 174 of the same substance, plus 10 doses of cocaine.
"This type of action framed in the chapters against public health in the Penal Code contemplates higher or aggravating penalties when the described events are carried out in educational centers, in centers, establishments or military units, in penitentiary establishments or in detoxification or rehabilitation centers, or in their vicinity," they specify from the Civil Guard.
