28-year-old held with 100 g of drugs hidden in trainers at Porto prison
A 28-year-old visitor was arrested at Porto Prison after allegedly swapping his trainers, hiding more than 100 grams of cannabis resin and cocaine, with an inmate during a visit. The drugs were seized and he was due before a judge, with no separate cannabis weight or outcome reported.
🇵🇹 Estabelecimento Prisional do Porto, Custóias, Matosinhos · Portugal
A 28-year-old man was detained by the Judicial Police on Wednesday 11 November
while allegedly trying to introduce drugs into Porto Prison.[1][2][3]The Judicial Police announced the detention on Thursday 12 November.[4]The arrest was
carried out by the Judicial Police’s Northern Directorate with the Prison Guard
Corps over suspected aggravateddrug trafficking.[1][3][5]He had gone to the prison
in the early afternoon to visit an inmate.[1][4]During the visit he took off the
trainers he was wearing and handed them to the inmate, who exchanged his own
footwear in the same way.[1][4]The exchange was detected and the footwear was
seized.[6][4]
Inside the trainers officers found several wraps containing suspected narcotics.[1][4]Police examinations confirmed more than 100 grams of drugs, namely cannabis
resin and cocaine.[1][5][4]The episode occurred at the Custoias prison complex,
where prison guards detected the handover and the Porto Judicial Police detained
the visitor.[2]
The suspect, aged 28 and with no criminal record, was detained for a first
judicial examination to decide coercion measures.[1][3]He was to be brought
before the Matosinhos investigating judge for that first examination.[2]
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Sources differ on the suspect's age: the Lusa reports carried by Correio da Manhã and Observador give 26, while Jornal de Notícias, 24 Notícias and A Verdade, which reproduce the police statement, give 28; the report uses 28.
No separate weight for the cannabis resin is reported; the more than 100 grams is a combined figure for cannabis resin and cocaine.
No outcome of the first judicial examination, and no coercion measures, are reported.
The reports do not say whether the inmate who received the trainers was searched, disciplined or charged.
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