Granada
Sentences of seven and six years in jail with an added fine of more than 227,000 € - The National Police have stopped this year’s distribution of the narcotic across Spain
Nov 14, 2017 - 1:12 PM
Condemned two tourists for a massive haul of three kilos of ecstasy
Sentences of seven and six years in jail with an added fine of more than 227,000 € - The National Police have stopped this year’s distribution of the narcotic across Spain
Nov 14, 2017 - 1:12 PM
They arrived in Granada as supposed tourists in April this year, but their holiday has ended behind bars. He, named with the initials T.E. was handed down seven years in prison and she, named as D.D to six years in custody and both have to pay more than 227,000 €, after the National Police uncovered in the city more than three kilos of the main substance to fabricate the designer drug.
When they were taken into custody they were driving a rented car, the 25-year-old woman was in the passenger seat and was found to have a bag containing MDMA between her legs, but that was not the only item of illicit merchandise they had brought to the city of Alhambra from Holland. In the hotel where they were staying, they found in a false ceiling in the bathroom of their suite, more bags of the narcotic, more than three kilos.
During the judgement of the German couple, which was celebrated in the Second Section of the Granada Provincial Court in the middle of July. Diario Ideal gained access to the sentence, dictated on 1 September, where the defence called for a complete pardon, and then appealed to the Penal Superior Tribunal of Justice of Andalucía according to consulted sources.
In the resolution, the tribunal considered proven that the Police were aware in Granada of the couple exercising an ‘operation to distribute and sell quantities of MDMA, derived from amphetamines. Their questioning led to the car being used by the accused, which was watched and intercepted in the parking of a fast-food establishment in the city. The couple, were in agreement that they were in a romantic relationship ‘newly born and unstable’
In the parking area, more drugs were found held by the woman under her shoe was a compartment, which contained exactly 1,081 grams of MDMA and 2,390 € from drug selling.
The 33-year-old was cornered and was in the possession of a knife. In the boot, the detectives uncovered ‘two barrels of five litres each which contained methanol, used according to the police to produce methamphetamine’
But, the police operation continued inside their hotel. In their bathroom, hidden in the false ceiling were ‘three vacuumed sealed bags’ weighing a total of 1,016 grams of MDMA – as seen also in the car. The container held another 1,318 grams of the same narcotic.
In total, according to official reports, after the analysing of the drugs was completed intended for Granada, was over three kilos in weight. Of which 3,199 grams was of ecstasy with 75% purity, valued on the black market around 88,000 €.
Also found inside the safe in their room was another bag weighing 995 grams with a ‘white paste like substance’ and another weighing 262 grams with a similar paste coloured pink.
Both substances were amphetamines, with a market value over 25,000 € - causing serious damage to health.
During the search of the German’s room they handed over 40 grams of hashish ‘hidden inside the headrest of the bed’ which the tribunal considered was for personal use.
They also handed in to the police ‘five vacuumed sealed bags containing caffeine’. Not a prohibited substance but, as the tribunal ruled, ‘would have been used to cut the drugs with the sulphuric acid, precision scales, a basin, saucepan, a bowl, a skimmer, rubber gloves and two bottles with remains of alcohol, which had been used to ‘cook’ the drug
The Audience observed that such items are normally found in a hotel room and considered they had been caught ‘modus operandi’ and had panicked and tried to hide items from the Police.
The Magistrates were in agreement as to the importance of the amount of drugs and thanked the Police for their determination which uncovered ‘a wide spectrum of criminal operations which indicated their most serious guilt’ which was as consensual between them as their guilt. Their intention had been to spend a holiday in Granada without ‘showing the quality and the amounts of the designer drugs in their possession, designed to be distributed across Spain among lower drug runners.
The verdict noted the chain of custody of the narcotics has been broken, and both were found guilty of crimes against public health ‘via the possession, distribution and selling of drugs illicitly’. Amounts ‘of notorious importance’ and given the woman will serve a shorter term of one year the court noted ‘she was not as involved in any of the stages of planning or control’ the acts which have sent both into prison.
Police sources agree that this is one of the most important hauls of designer drugs in recent years and a great setback on those who want to continue in the drugs market.
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When they were taken into custody they were driving a rented car, the 25-year-old woman was in the passenger seat and was found to have a bag containing MDMA between her legs, but that was not the only item of illicit merchandise they had brought to the city of Alhambra from Holland. In the hotel where they were staying, they found in a false ceiling in the bathroom of their suite, more bags of the narcotic, more than three kilos.
During the judgement of the German couple, which was celebrated in the Second Section of the Granada Provincial Court in the middle of July. Diario Ideal gained access to the sentence, dictated on 1 September, where the defence called for a complete pardon, and then appealed to the Penal Superior Tribunal of Justice of Andalucía according to consulted sources.
In the resolution, the tribunal considered proven that the Police were aware in Granada of the couple exercising an ‘operation to distribute and sell quantities of MDMA, derived from amphetamines. Their questioning led to the car being used by the accused, which was watched and intercepted in the parking of a fast-food establishment in the city. The couple, were in agreement that they were in a romantic relationship ‘newly born and unstable’
In the parking area, more drugs were found held by the woman under her shoe was a compartment, which contained exactly 1,081 grams of MDMA and 2,390 € from drug selling.
The 33-year-old was cornered and was in the possession of a knife. In the boot, the detectives uncovered ‘two barrels of five litres each which contained methanol, used according to the police to produce methamphetamine’
But, the police operation continued inside their hotel. In their bathroom, hidden in the false ceiling were ‘three vacuumed sealed bags’ weighing a total of 1,016 grams of MDMA – as seen also in the car. The container held another 1,318 grams of the same narcotic.
In total, according to official reports, after the analysing of the drugs was completed intended for Granada, was over three kilos in weight. Of which 3,199 grams was of ecstasy with 75% purity, valued on the black market around 88,000 €.
Also found inside the safe in their room was another bag weighing 995 grams with a ‘white paste like substance’ and another weighing 262 grams with a similar paste coloured pink.
Both substances were amphetamines, with a market value over 25,000 € - causing serious damage to health.
During the search of the German’s room they handed over 40 grams of hashish ‘hidden inside the headrest of the bed’ which the tribunal considered was for personal use.
They also handed in to the police ‘five vacuumed sealed bags containing caffeine’. Not a prohibited substance but, as the tribunal ruled, ‘would have been used to cut the drugs with the sulphuric acid, precision scales, a basin, saucepan, a bowl, a skimmer, rubber gloves and two bottles with remains of alcohol, which had been used to ‘cook’ the drug
The Audience observed that such items are normally found in a hotel room and considered they had been caught ‘modus operandi’ and had panicked and tried to hide items from the Police.
The Magistrates were in agreement as to the importance of the amount of drugs and thanked the Police for their determination which uncovered ‘a wide spectrum of criminal operations which indicated their most serious guilt’ which was as consensual between them as their guilt. Their intention had been to spend a holiday in Granada without ‘showing the quality and the amounts of the designer drugs in their possession, designed to be distributed across Spain among lower drug runners.
The verdict noted the chain of custody of the narcotics has been broken, and both were found guilty of crimes against public health ‘via the possession, distribution and selling of drugs illicitly’. Amounts ‘of notorious importance’ and given the woman will serve a shorter term of one year the court noted ‘she was not as involved in any of the stages of planning or control’ the acts which have sent both into prison.
Police sources agree that this is one of the most important hauls of designer drugs in recent years and a great setback on those who want to continue in the drugs market.
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