Two arrests for drug trafficking in Ericeira. GNR seized drugs and weapons

Deight men, aged 51 and 55, were arrested by the Republican National Guard (GNR), last Thursday, in Ericeira, municipality of Mafra, for drug trafficking.

In a statement, GNR explains that, in the framework of an investigation that took place about six months ago, “the Guard’s military developed efforts to establish that suspects were dedicated to the distribution and marketing of narcotic products, supplying consumers and other individuals linked to trafficking activity in the localities of Ericeira and Incarnation”, as well as in the municipality of Torres Vedras. 

In view of the investigation, “a police operation was initiated, during which two house search warrants and seven non-house search warrants were completed.”.

The searches culminated in the arrest of suspects and the seizure of several materials, including 9,225 euros in cash, 484 grams of a solid substance, whose composition is pending from laboratory analysis, 375 ammunition of different calibers, 206 doses of hashish, six cutting knives, five sabers, four plants of cannabis, four precision scales, three mobile phones, two grenades, one offensive and one defensive, both with explosive charge, two carbines, two doses of cocaine, one 9 mm caliber pistol, one revolver, one extensible stick and one vacuum packing machine.

The detainees were arrested and the first judicial interrogation was held at the Sintra Judicial Court. The preventive detention measure was applied to one of the defendants and the weekly presentations to the other.

The operation was supported by the GNR Intervention Unit, through the Special Operations Intervention Group, the Public Order Intervention Group, the Cinotechnical Intervention Group and the Inactivation Center for Explosives and Security in Subsoil, as well as the Lisbon Intervention Detachment.