Montpellier: discovery of cocaine in underpants and stolen objects in a bag

By Metropolitan editorial staff
Posted on 29 Sep 20 at 18:19

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Two separate cases with three police custody occupied the police officers of the departmental security of Hérault, Monday, in Montpellier.

Coke and gun

Monday at 9:15 am, agents of the railway brigade of the regional directorate of SNCF from Montpellier carry out a routine check in the Nice-Bordeaux train, immobilized at Saint-Roch station. The search of a 20-year-old traveler proves successful: he hides in his underpants 14 cocaine capsules, with a total weight of 5 grams. Is in his suitcase, officers also get their hands on a shotgun with sawn off gum type bangs which shoots blank bullets.

In police custody, the train passenger explains that he got into Saint-Charles station in Marseille to join his partner in Bordeaux and that he lives with his mother in Nîmes. Which reveals to the police that she no longer wants to hear from him …

He explains that he carries coke for his personal consumption, claiming to ignore that it is forbidden to walk around with a sawed-off shotgun. Released, he will be tried later.

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“It’s not us” …

Monday at 10:50 a.m., a private security officer warns police-emergency of the triggering of the alarm in an empty house at the moment, in a dead end located in the southern district of Tournezy, evoking a possible intrusion.

When the police officers of the anti-crime brigade -Bac– dispatched on the spot arrive, they cross in the sector two young individuals on foot, one of which gets rid of a bag immediately. They are arrested. The bag contains various items – iPad, iPod, tablets, etc. – belonging to the children of the owner of the house, which was broken into.

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The police note that the front door – 5,000 euros for repairs – was fractured using a screwdriver. However, they recover one in the pocket of one of the two suspects, one aged 17, the other 18.

In police custody, the duo denies any involvement, repeating: “It’s not us”, explaining that they are looking for a car garage address in the neighborhood to come and do an internship. After an “internship” at the central police station, they were released and will be tried later.

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