A series of citizen complaints make a network that used minors for drug trafficking | Spain

The residents of the Viso del Alcor (Seville, 19,318 inhabitants) began to fed up with the transfer of people who came to consume drug at different times of the day and caused altercations in their streets and decided to present their complaints through the citizen portal of the Civil Guard website, in local units or in the City Council itself. The unusual increase of these complaints through that channel alerted the investigators who launched an operation that has dismant Sell ​​the drug.

« This citizen portal is the great unknown, but it is a very important tool to be able to investigate cases that also guarantees the anonymity of the complainants, » says a Civil Guard spokesman on the road that allowed the end of this criminal group and that has resulted in the arrest of seven people and the investigation of three others for alleged Drug trafficking crimesbelonging to criminal organization and illicit possession of arms.

The network was headed by a neighbor of El Viso who used three homes, two of them illegally occupied, as active points of sale of ‘Rebujao‘, a mixture of cocaine and heroine. For the distribution of the drug, minors and drug addicts were used to which the organization extorted and forced to perform this task, indicate the sources of the investigation consulted, which highlight that the minor identified was 14 years old. It would be a relative of any of the clients that was threatened to make the sale and avoid other reprisals, they point out those same sources.

Another specific element of your modus operandi It was the appropriation of credit cards or the number of consumers as a guarantee to ensure that they charged for the merchandise sold when they received social aid. « It was a way to make sure the debts were paid. If you don’t give me the money, I take it out of your account directly, » the sources consulted detail.

In the operation, which has had the collaboration of the Local Police, specialized units of the Command of Seville and the Madrid Reserve and Security Group also intervened in its final phase, given the possibility that there were firearms. A suspicion that was found during one of the records, when a manipulated revolver was found, as well as drug cartridges and other objects, allegedly exchanged for narcotics.