In the early hours of today, officers of the Regional Drug Prosecution Team (P.O.D.I.N.) of the Central Port Authority of Patras, arrested one (01) citizen, for violation of Law 4139/2013 “on addictive substances”, in external port of Igoumenitsa.
Specifically, following an appropriate utilization of information and a systematic multi-month investigation, an operation was carried out by officers of the Regional Drug Enforcement Team (RDTF), the K9 Team and the Special Missions Unit (SEA) of the Central Port Authority of Patras, in collaboration with the officers of the Regional Drug Enforcement Team (R.D.I.N.), the Security Office as well as the Special Missions Echelon (K.E.A.) of the Port Authority of Igoumenitsa and a targeted control was carried out in a truck (tractor/seater), which had been unloaded from an E/G-O/G ship coming from an Italian port.
During the control, following an indication from the police drug detection dog L.S.-EL.AKT. “MEZCAL”, the officers found carefully stacked in the cargo area, eight (08) cartons, which contained forty-three (43) plastic packages of raw hydroponically cultivated cannabis (SKUNK), with a total gross weight of forty-eight kilograms and one hundred and thirty-nine grams (48,139 g), as well as two hundred and fifteen (215) plastic packages of treated cannabis, with a total gross weight of twenty one kilograms and two hundred and sixty grams (21,260 g).
In addition, as part of the autoforos, another citizen (69 years old) involved in the transport of narcotics was arrested today in Attiki, outside his home, by officers of the Directorate of Narcotics & Smuggling and the Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team (P.O.D.I. N.) of the Central Port Authority of Piraeus, while a legal house search followed at his home.
The 61-year-old citizen, driver of the F/G vehicle (tractor/passenger) as well as the 69-year-old citizen are to be brought before the District Attorney of Thesprotia. The Central Port Authority of Patras, which is conducting the preliminary investigation, seized the quantities of narcotic substances, which are to be sent to the Chemical Service of Ioannina for examination. In addition, the F/C vehicle with its seat, four (04) mobile telephone devices and the sum of one thousand nine hundred and ninety euros (€1,990) were confiscated.
The value of the seized drugs exceeds four hundred and fifty thousand euros (€450,000).
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