Tense in the District Court this Tuesday morning CastellonWhere two civil guards from the Burriana tax office sit on the podium to face a possible prison sentence prison. The two agents are accused of participating in a scheme to arrange shipments of 2,100 kilos of marijuana split into 70 bales. Burriana port and they reassured in the first session this Tuesday judgment that they only found and protected the boat with the drugs, denying their alleged relationship with the drug traffickers.
This Investigation five years nine months prison for two members of the Benemérita for their crimes drug trafficking a notorious amount committed by a public official in the performance of his duties, as well as for membership in a criminal group. The remainder of the defendants, seven in total, face prison sentences ranging from four years and nine months to five years and six months. prison.
The events occurred on June 17, 2015, when some of the defendants went by boat from a semi-rigid boat on the open sea to a point where the drugs were unloaded and the turnaround began. burrianaAs stated by the Supreme Court, Valencian Community.
Agents on Burriana Company’s Financial Patrol were tasked with monitoring the Port to ensure the drug was discharged and to make it difficult for other patrols of the company to locate the shipment. Civil Guard.
Most accept their participation.
The first defendant who gave his statement was the person on board, who stated that he was given the coordinates to transport the cargo and that after it was done they said that the ship should enter the Port and not. Worried that “Civil Guard was also bought”; The other five defendants admitted to participating in the events.
Only answering the questions of their lawyers, the two suspect civil rangers reported that they heard from the Service Operations Center (COS) that a boat loaded with ‘chocolate’ would enter while they were on duty. . They toured the port market as they explained and saw nothing.
Cross-charges between guards
Then, as they said, they made other moves and, upon another notification from COS, went to the area where the boat was actually located. One of the agents stated that he jumped into the boat, found a tarpaulin and found the bales.
The two accused civilian guards agreed, highlighting the “rapidity” in the appearance of EDOA troops. One of the defences even revealed that the head of this specialized unit had a conflict with one of the agents sitting on the bench. Likewise, the defense tried to cast doubt on other components of Burriana’s financial service, warned by the presiding judge and threatening to retract one of them if it didn’t “fair play”.
Among the witnesses testified at Tuesday’s session, the head of the EODA team, who stated that the COS had informed him that a drug-laden ship had appeared in the port. He went to the port, met with his friends, and according to his accounts, the first decision was to immobilize the boat and request a visual inspection.
This witness explained that after a phone tapping, a conversation between one of the defendants and her mother had been detected, and the mother had told her that the civil guard had been involved, and therefore EDOA was conducting appropriate investigations to clarify whether the two were involved. the guards cooperated with the smugglers.
The head of the EODA team also noted how some of the port security cameras in the area where the ship appeared were not working, apparently due to a malfunctioning fuse, and how it appeared in the footage of the working cameras. One of the accused civilian guards left his partner and stood in front of the area where the boat was located, manipulating his mobile phone. He also added that the accused civilian guards cut off the GPS connection at a certain time.
The trial will continue tomorrow and Friday.