Local Police officers of Cehegín proceeded last Wednesday, August 23, to the arrest of two young people (one of them a minor), both of Spanish nationality, neighbors of Cehegín, as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health, To be surprised "in fraganti" in an act of drug traffic in the public highway.
According to sources of the Department of Public Safety, led by Joaquín López, on Wednesday afternoon, a local police patrol of Cehegín in the role of citizen security, detected in the vicinity of the garden of the Avenue of the Constitution the presence of two young people Related to the consumption of toxic substances.
The fact, coupled with the repeated complaints from the neighborhood that the garden of the Constitution Avenue had become a point of sale of narcotic substances at retail, caused the Local Police patrol to focus on the behavior of the above- Being able to witness how, after hiding a bag that finally contained several doses of MARIHUANA SATIVA, the alleged authors were directed to another group of young people, making a transaction between them.
Subsequently, after intervening the substance to the alleged buyer, a minor of 15 years, the search and identification of the alleged sellers, who carried a certain amount of drug hidden between their clothes, as well as to the discovery of the bag that previously had concealed between The vegetation of the park and that contained at least 20 doses of MARIHUANA SATIVA.
In view of the above, the local agents proceeded to detain the alleged youths as alleged perpetrators of a "qualified" drug trafficking offense, when the alleged sale was made to a minor.
The detainees, along with the judicial proceedings and the drug intervened were placed at the disposal of the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Caravaca de la Cruz on duty as guard.
This action is part of the PREVENTION PLAN FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF DRUGS AND TRAFFIC OF THESE SUBSTANCES TO THE MALE IN PUBLIC PLACES AND IMMEDITIONS OF EDUCATIONAL CENTERS articulated by the Department of Public Safety and launched by the Local Police of Cehegín.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín