A patrol of the Urban Guard registered the teenager and found 742.44 grams of the drug and 485 euros in fractioned bills
The finding has surprised the police and the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office must now investigate where the substance came from
The Urban Guard arrested on the night of January 5 a minor under 16 years of age and of foreign nationality who was surprised with 742.44 grams of heroin and 485 euros in divided bills in the Raval of Barcelona. The events took place at the intersection of Carme street with Maria Aurèlia Capmany street at around 9:00 p.m., when the parade of the wise men was about to end its tour next to the Montjuïc fountains.
A patrol of municipal police officers from the Ciutat Vella district was struck by a young man who was traveling in the back seat of a Cabify, the transport service regulated by the mobile phone application that works in parallel to the taxi service. The police officers noticed that the teenager was scared when he saw them and that he was trying to hide, an attitude that led them to stop the driver to see why he acted in this way.
The patrol asked the minor to get out of the car and required his documentation. When checking the backpack he was carrying with him, the uniformed officers discovered a package of a narcotic substance that, according to police sources, turned out to be heroin. In total, he carried almost three-quarters of a drug that is not usually sold on the street but inside outlets such as the narcotics –Houses occupied by traffickers that function as places for the sale of heroin and also as clandestine venipuncture rooms– and whose proliferation at the end of 2016 unearthed a pre-Olympic image in the heart of the Catalan capital: drug addicts wandering the streets. The police officers were surprised that on Wednesday, January 5, the King’s Night, a young man was handling such amounts of heroin traveling in a Cabify car. The surprise increased even more when the documentation revealed that it was a minor. He was 16 years old, about to turn 17.
The amount of cash that he was hiding in the same backpack –485 euros in fractionated bills– also reinforced the hypothesis that he had been selling doses for a long time and keeping the cash that they gave him in exchange. consumers.
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The policemen detained the adolescent and handed him over to the Office of Attention to Minors (OAM) of the Mossos d’Esquadra. Proceedings were opened at the OAM against the suspect and these were transferred to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, the body in charge of investigate the facts and also to decide the punishment that, in the case of someone who has not reached the age of majority, will not be punished with the same harshness that the Penal Code for adults dealing in heroin.
Police sources consulted by this newspaper emphasize that this event could respond to the pressure that both Urbana and Mossos exert on the drug dealers. A persecution that leads traffickers to look for new formulas to distribute the doses of heroin.
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