Two civil guards “hunted” convicted of buying drugs in the Cañada Real

10/26/2022 at 08:20

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The Supreme Court has confirmed the sentence of two and one year of suspension of employment to two civil guards who were surprised by the Municipal Police of Madrid in a shack in the town of Cañada Realwhere they went to buy and consume drugs, and that they alleged to the agents that “they were working.”

The Military Chamber has issued a ruling that dismisses the appeal filed by the civil guards against the judgment of the Central Military Court, which confirmed the decision of the Minister of Defense that imposed the disciplinary sanction of suspension of employment, for the very serious offense of “abuse of powers that causes serious damage to citizens or the Administration“.

The agents, initially stationed in Tres Cantos (Madrid) and relocated to Peñafiel (Valladolid) and Vitoria (Álava) after the events, were sanctioned with two years and one year of suspension of employment and without requesting a posting in Madrid for two years.

The events occurred on January 9, 2019 in Cañada Real, in the town of Valdemingómez de Madrid, when the Municipal Police deployed there saw a car entered the neighborhood and decided to “carry out a discreet follow-up” of the vehicle.

At the wheel was a civil guard, next to him a Romanian citizen as co-pilot and another civil guard behind. After being indicated by a machaca (the watchman of traffickers in the area), the car stopped in front of a shack “suspicious for drug trafficking, consumption and retail”, which the driver and the Romanian citizen entered.

Upon leaving, the patrol resumed the march and intercepted the car at the exit roundabout to the Valencia Highway (A-3) as it was a safer place. Then the driver identified himself as a civil guard, showed his credentials and justified his presence in the Cañada Real where “They were working”, so that the municipal police let them go because “he feared interfering with an ongoing investigation.”

However, given the suspicions of the agents, they resumed monitoring and verified, after speaking with the switchboard, that the vehicle was not a work vehicle but rather the property of the other civil guard, that he had not identified himself as such, so “having doubts that they were really members of the Meritorious Institute”, they requested reinforcements and stopped the car again on the A-3.

Yes, two agents “reiterated to the patrol that they were working,” although the policemen did not believe them because “they considered it unreasonable” that they were using a private vehicle to do so, and also accompanied by a citizen.

After being asked if they were carrying their weapons and answering no, the agents searched them and found the civil guard driver a small bag with a substance that could be a narcotic in the form of a rockwhich the Romanian citizen had handed over to him for safekeeping, due to police intervention.

At that time, this civil guard told the municipal police “his extreme regret and remorse for the events”, while his partner, “haughtily, addressed the agents criticizing their way of proceeding”.

It was then that the policemen agreed to report the events to the Civil Guard and asked for a team of witnesses to submit the driver to an alcohol and drug test, which tested positive for both (cocaine). His partner only tested positive for alcohol.

After that, the two agents were taken to the Tres Cantos Main Post, where they were interviewed by the commander and by the incident officer of the Madrid Command, who decided to relieve the agent who was driving the car of a citizen security service that had planned to start, because “he was not fit” due to the substances ingested.

In its ruling, the Supreme Court supports the actions of the Central Military Court on the understanding that “a complete range of evidence has been assessed, solid and accommodated in its expression to the constitutional canon, with an exhaustive, logical and rational weighting” in order “to the non-existence helpless.”

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