During a routine traffic stop on the seashore, the Orihuela Local Police found 8.8 kilograms of a plant that looked like marijuana and detained two people for allegedly committing a crime against public health.
The event, which came to light on Wednesday, happened on Monday when police set up a roadblock on Salvador Dalí Street in the Flamenca beach area. During the operation, authorities pulled over a BMW X6 with German registration plates that had two men inside.
The police report says that the officers smelt a lot of marijuana coming from inside the car. This made them search the people inside and look at the car.
They found a cardboard box that was sealed and taped up while searching the trunk. It also included a polyurethane foam concealing system inside, which seems to have been meant to make it tougher to find the contents. The driver said that the package contained clothes he had just gotten in the mail, but he wouldn’t open it at first.
Because of this, the agents opened the box in front of the people who lived there and found numerous bags inside that contained a crushed plant substance that looked like marijuana.
Being held in detention
After the discovery, the cops arrested both people in the car for a felony against public health and told them why they were being arrested.
The police then took the car to their headquarters to be impounded. A pharmacy later weighed the seized stuff and found that it weighed about 8.8 kg.
While they were doing their work in the police station, the agents also found a phoney Bulgarian identity card that was hidden in the phone case of one of the people they arrested.
Once the police were done with their work, they gave the detainees and the things they had taken to the Civil Guard of the Pilar de la Horadada station, which is now in charge of the investigation.
The Orihuela Local Police do this kind of operation all the time in different parts of the city as part of their efforts to keep the public safe and secure. The police stress how important these checks are because they help them find these kinds of situations and make locals feel safer.
