Foz fig tree. Man arrested trying to collect drugs hidden in pinewood

A Judicial Police (PJ), through the Centre Board, identified and detained a 39-year-old man, trying to collect 800 grams of cocaine he had hidden in a pine forest area in Ribas, Figueira da Foz county.

The arrest warrant was issued by the FIgueira da Foz Department of Investigation and Criminal Action.

“ The arrest was the culmination of an intense work of gathering information, whose diligence (watching the movements of the suspect), created the conviction that it would collect the narcotic product that it had buried in the pine forest, but which, in the previous moment, had been seized”, according to PJ in a statement sent to the essays.

According to can be read, the “inspectors proceeded to the approach of man when he was digging the site, equipped with a mason’s spoon, trying to recover the drug”. At that time, the suspect “offered resistance with violence and tried to flee the scene.”.

The operation resulted in the seizure of approximately “800 grams of cocaine, packed in 53 closed hermetic bags, of EUR 865 in cash, two cars and a vast set of evidence, namely telecommunications equipment”.

The detainee, indicted for the practice of drug trafficking crimes, resistance and coercion on an official, and also of offenses to physical integrity, will be present to the judicial authority for first judicial questioning and enforcement of coercion measures.