The District Court made a decision only two years in prison In 2015, two people were arrested at the Torre de la Horadada yacht club with 389 kilos of cocaine seized from a recreational boat. The defendants, a 79-year-old man and his 52-year-old son, were held in preventive detention for nearly four months after their arrest, but have now They won’t have to go back to prison. because the Chapter 11 court recently granted them the right to: postponement of execution of sentence upon your request defense lawyer Moisés Candela Sabater.
The prosecutor’s office, which did not object to the decision, sentenced them both to nine years in prison. 14.5 million euro fine for the value of the cocaine, but the Court approved the request of lawyer Moisés Candela to impose this sentence. High-quality reduction of excessive delays According to the decision, their sentences were reduced to two years due to their lack of criminal records. The court also imposed the following sentence: 14.5 million fine with two months reserve detentionAs stated in the sentence.
The events declared proven occurred on January 29, 2015, at the yacht club in the Pilarño district of Torre de la Horadada. A club sailor observed: docked pleasure boat was listed and when he looked outside he saw some suspicious packages from outside. He notified the manager of the yacht club and contacted the Security Forces, whose headquarters were a few meters away.
boat registration
The Civil Guard arrived on the scene, and after gaining approval from the boat owner’s son to investigate, some agents entered the boat and inside, in a small cabin in the bow, they found 13 bales containing a total of 390 packages of cocaine. . Net weight of the drug 389 kilos, 70.1% purity and its value on the illegal market, as stated in the sentence, is 14,536,587 Euros.
Bales of cocaine were loaded onto the boat in question by the two suspects. 130,000 Euro financial compensation for transportation from the high seas to the Torre de la Horadada marina.
Civil Guards also found two people GPS navigation devicesa folio containing coordinates and a written description of said coordinates.
In the decision, it was stated that the bales were collected in the open sea on January 27, at the coordinates on the foil. The collection point was located approximately 31 nautical miles off the coast of Santa Pola. Father and son went to the coordinates given to them accompanied by an unidentified third party and collected the drugs. The bundles were tied to a plastic barrel in which they floated, along with some balloons and a lit beacon. They returned to port in the early hours of January 28, and the cache was discovered the next day.
The Audience Court, which heard the case, considered that although it was a case devoid of complexity, there were some issues. excessive delays lasting more than eight years Since it cannot be attributed to the defendant, the sentence should be reduced by two degrees.