Customs Surveillance and Civil Guard intercepted the second largest shipment of pink cocaine in the country last Tuesday, after a 22-year-old passenger who arrived at Gran Canaria airport with 10.22kg of this drug. tusiwould have a market value of approximately one million euros. who is the traveler already in prison The person accused of trafficking drugs and committing crimes against public health was also carrying two kilos of heroin.
The service took place last Tuesday afternoon, when security forces received a notification from Belgian customs authorities about a possible cargo of narcotics carried by a young man. By plane from Brussels. The Las Palmas Customs Surveillance Operational Unit, together with the Gran Canaria airport’s Civil Guard, installed a device to later locate the owner of the suspicious suitcase, according to both agencies’ testimony in a joint press release.
Already at the terminal, they stopped a young man of Dutch nationality (Holland), who had already collected the luggage at the arrivals terminal. What they saw when the agents began to examine the contents of the suitcase. a large bag containing a pink substance a few items weighing more than ten kilos and which were detected to be another drug weighing two kilos. Representatives performed an initial analysis for both substances: The first tested positive for MDMA or ecstasy, one of the ingredients from which the drug is made. Tutsi; and the second in heroin.
To the prison
Given the evidence, agents continued to arrest the passenger for allegedly being the perpetrator of the drug trafficking crime. According to the sources consulted, the arrested person died last Thursday at the Telde No. 2 Investigation Court, which was on duty and ordered him to enter the temporary prison.
Ten kilos of pink cocaine Second largest shipment of this substance seized in Spain, was caught with 13 kilograms in an operation in which 12 people fell in Ibiza last summer, just behind him. This substance has nothing to do with cocaine and is named after its very similar appearance and color. And this is because the drug consists of other substances such as: MDMA, LSD or Ketamine, as well as oxycodone, a drug used to relieve pain. The effects it provides are visual and auditory hallucinations.
100 euros per gram
Its consumption is special due to its high price: 100 Euros per gram. This characterizes it as the medicine of luxury. Given such a price, investigators suspect more than ten kilograms brought by the young Dutchman. They were destined to supply the market of the entire Archipelago.as stated by the same sources.
This is the first time this substance has been practically seized in the Islands. last june, the National Police and Santa Lucía Local Police developed operation Titan The case that allowed the arrest of a businessman from the automotive industry with 136 doses of tusi, cocaine, amphetamine, crystal and viagra and a 4,5 caliber pistol. In August, the same state security agency reported that it had arrested a 21-year-old teenager during a check in south of Tenerife for seizures of 1.6 grams of cocaine, among other substances. And in Lanzarote, Tías local police In Puerto del Carmen, 3 people were treated with this substance in small amounts.