Officials of the National Police Corps in Lanzarote, assigned to the Superior Headquarters of the Canary Islands Police, have arrested in Arrecife two Dominicans and a Venezuelan, two of whom were found with 1,350 grams of cocaine in their bodies, in two operations carried out by the Arrecife Narcotics Group.
According to data provided yesterday from the police station of the island's capital, the three detainees, Fermín S.D., 21 years old, Pedro L.F. of 18, both of Dominican origin and with numerous police records, and Omar de Jesús S.O., 21 years old, Venezuelan and without a criminal record, were engaged in the introduction, cutting and distribution of cocaine on the Island.
The arrests occurred last weekend after the three involved arrived from their respective countries of origin, two of them from the Dominican Republic and a third from Venezuela, to the Lanzarote airport, from where they were transferred to the General Hospital to check if they were carrying drugs.
In the first operation, one of the Dominicans was found, after submitting both to radiological tests, 28 cylindrical containers filled with highly pure cocaine, weighing 350 grams, which he expelled naturally without the need for surgical intervention.
In the second, simultaneous operation carried out during the same weekend, an operation was carried out with the same objective, managing to identify the Venezuelan, who introduced cocaine from Caracas, and who was found inside his body 77 cylindrical containers with cocaine, which weighed one kilo.
The arrests are the result of an investigation opened by the National Police, after it was discovered months ago how common the practice is in which some individuals of Dominican origin are dedicated to transporting cocaine to said town inside their bodies.
The detainees, together with the proceedings instructed, were placed at the disposal of the judicial authority, which ordered the imprisonment of Pedro L.F. and Omar de Jesús S.O.
