Francis Da Cunha, a 42-year-old Montluçonnais, was tried on Wednesday 26 October, in immediate appearance, by the Montluçon Criminal Court, for transport, detention, offer and transfer, purchase, use and use of drugs, in a state of recidivism legal. He was sentenced to six years in prison, with a postponement warrant. A sentence accompanied by the ban on staying in the Allier for five years.
More than three kilos of narcotics in the house
During the search of his home, the gendarmes of the Montluçon research brigade found 3,134 kg of heroin, of which 1.2 kg in a single block, 39.18 g of cocaine, 122.10 g of cannabis resin, 5,580 euros in cash, all in a safe. But also three precision scales, pages of names, nicknames and sums of money, as well as 168.78 g of baking soda, a vacuum device, sachets, five cell phones …
Several convictions since 2003
The 40-year-old, convicted several times since 2003, for similar acts, had fallen back less than three months after his release in March 2022. Until then he had met with methadone, this drug user for many years. , in June, “an acquaintance” who had offered him “to work for him again.”
He had entrusted him with 1 kg of heroin and 200 g of cocaine, all for a value of 24,000 euros. The first quantities sold in three months, before a new supply of 4 kg of heroin, much of which was found during the searches.
Addictions to heroin and cocaine
At the same time, Francis Da Cuhna had relapsed and consumed 1 g of heroin and 3 g of cocaine per day. Which cost him about 240 euros a day:
If I don’t stop, it’s because he’s stronger than me.
According to the investigations of the gendarmes, his acquaintance would have provided him with more than 75,000 euros of narcotics. This clarification was made by the prosecutor who deplored that the accused “is not aware of the risk he represents for users. In a logic of social protection, in the face of this trafficking and this multiple recidivism ”, he asked for six years of imprisonment, accompanied by a postponement warrant.
In Montluçon (Allier), he robs the renovation site of a former client’s house
Philip Werth
