58-year-old remanded with 162 kg cannabis in Santiago
Cape Verde's judicial police detained a 58-year-old man in São Salvador do Mundo, Santiago, seizing 162 kg of cannabis and a firearm. Presented on 1 June 2019, he was ordered held in preventive detention.
🇨🇻 Pico Acima, São Salvador do Mundo, Santiago · Cabo Verde
Cape Verde’s Polícia Judiciária detained a man in São Salvador do Mundo, on
Santiago island, on Friday 31 May 2019.[1]The detainee was 58 years old and
lived in the locality of Pico Acima.[1]Officers of SCITE, the Central Section
for Investigation of Drug Trafficking, made the detention while executing a
search-and-seizure warrant.[1]The suspect was brought before the competent
judicial authorities on Saturday 1 June for a first judicial interrogation and a
decision on personal coercive measures.[1]The court ordered him held in
preventive detention, the pretrial custody measure.[1]
In the operation officers seized 162 kg of cannabis and a firearm.[1]He was
found in possession of the cannabis and the firearm at the time of the
detention.[1]A photograph credited to the Polícia Judiciária showed the
seized cannabis stored in drums.[1]
The Polícia Judiciária announced the detention in a press note issued on a
Tuesday.[1]SCITE’s full Portuguese name is Secção Central de Investigação de
Tráfico de Estupefacientes, identifying the case as a drug-trafficking
investigation.[1]
Photos and video
Drums containing the seized cannabis. Photo: Polícia JudiciáriaPhoto details
The article says Friday 31 and Saturday 01 and was published 5 June 2019, so 31 is read as 31 May 2019 and 01 as 1 June 2019, with 1 June used as the incident date as the latest step.
The Tuesday of the cited Polícia Judiciária press note is not dated in the text and is read as 4 June 2019 given the 5 June publication.
The type, calibre and legal status of the seized firearm were not reported.
The physical form of the 162 kg of cannabis was not specified beyond its weight, although the published photo shows drums.
No formal charges or later trial outcome beyond preventive detention were reported.
Only one accessible account of this event could be opened after searching in Portuguese and English.
The same page reports a separate experiencing detention on gender-based violence charges on Sal island, a different event left out of this report.
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