The Civil Guard assigned to the Lanzarote airport arrested a person with the initials A.C.M.P., 39 years old, of Spanish nationality, last Sunday as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health when he was trying to introduce cocaine to the island.
The agents, while carrying out fiscal surveillance tasks, identified a passenger from a flight from Madrid who aroused their suspicions "due to his apparent nervousness", as explained by the Benemérita in a statement. Later, in his luggage they found a plastic container with protein powder, used as nutrients by athletes, which actually hid drugs.
"The container marked the quantity of 1,500 grams, and on the unit's scale it gave them a weight of 4,288 grams, so, after applying a certain chemical reagent - called a narcotest - to the substance inside, it showed the blue color corresponding to cocaine, at which moment A.C.M.P. confessed to the agents that it was cocaine," explains the Civil Guard.
Immediately, the man was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health, and together with the seized cocaine was placed at the disposal of the corresponding Court, on duty, of the town of Arrecife, which ordered his admission to provisional prison, pending the Health Area of the Government Delegation determining the exact amount of cocaine.
