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Police authorities seized at least 21.6 kg of ecstasy, methamphetamine and other drugs, in addition to bullet cartridges and four cell phones in the raids carried out
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January 18, 2023 at 22:35
Five young people between the ages of 22 and 27 were arrested this Wednesday for integrating a organization “dedicated to the commercialization and distribution of different substances narcotics”.
Operation Arquímedes has been carried out for three months and, following an anonymous complaint received, the Departmental Anti-drug Brigade was able to determine that this organization, which traded synthetic drugs He received the substances from a man “through parcels that arrived from the border departments.” Then, it was distributed by different people for its consumption in the different electronic parties and offered for sale through social networksaccording to the police report.
The police authorities carried out five raids and managed to arrest the five criminals. They are a 20-year-old, three 22-year-olds and one 27-year-old who was transferred from Rivera to the country’s capital.
Likewise, it was possible to seize: 19 “large bags with plant substance (buds)” with a weight of 21.51 kilograms; a large “parcel type” package that the policemen assume contains “MDMA pills” (ecstasy); seven glass jars with 63 grams of “vegetable substance”; a container containing three white and salmon-colored pills with the “SPRITE” logo and a blue “MDMA ecstasy cross-shaped” pill; six ecstasy pills; a nylon wrapper containing methamphetamine; another package containing “crystallized substance”; another wrapper with 2.64 grams of cocaine; three precision balances; 10 cartridges caliber .22mm; 19 ziploc bags with “remains of vegetable substance”; $17,150, and four cell phones.
The five young men arrested are at the disposal of Justice.
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