Preventive arrest for 4 drug trafficking suspects in Ponta Delgada

Quatro men were arrested for being suspected of drug trafficking, following a police operation that covered three parishes of the municipality of Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, which culminated with five arrests, was announced today.

According to the Public Security Police (PSP), the operation to combat drug trafficking was carried out last week, covering the parishes of São José, São Pedro and Livramento, in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel.

In a press release, the Regional Command of the PSP in the Azores also explains that this operation took place in the context of a criminal investigation, which led to four home searches and allowed “to collect evidence strongly indicting the practice of drug trafficking crimes, involving, in particular, heroin and synthetic substances”.

In the course of the operation, five men were arrested, aged between 33 and 53 years old, which reveals the same police source.

The suspects were present to the judicial authority for the first judicial interrogation and “four of the detainees were subject to the measure of coercion of preventive imprisonment, while the fifth was subject to a measure of coercion not deprived of freedom”, according to the PSP.