Weapons, cash and over 60 kg of cannabis resin. Here is the loot seized by the judicial police of Grenoble (Isère), after the arrest of three men during a go-fast from Spain this Saturday April 2 at the Valence-Sud motorway toll.
At the initiative of the Grenoble Public Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation carried out by an examining magistrate and the city’s interministerial research group (GIR) made it possible to identify three suspects, domiciled in the Grenoble area, as of last September.
Accustomed to making a go-fast every month, the latter, respectively aged 20, 30 and 34, were arrested in flagrante delicto on their return from Spain on Friday evening April 1, before being placed in police custody, according to a press release from the Grenoble Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Intercepted at 11:20 p.m., the carrier vehicle contained nearly 50 kilograms of cannabis resin. The second car, acting as usher, was stopped an hour later, after trying to escape the police device.
Two of the three suspects imprisoned
Brought before the investigating magistrate on Tuesday, April 5, the three individuals were indicted for “acquisition, possession, transport, offer or sale, importation of narcotics, money laundering and criminal association”. The two thirties were placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention, while the 20-year-old man was placed under judicial control.
In addition to this substantial seizure, the Grenoble judicial police also recovered ten kilos of cannabis resin packed in “Moroccan suitcases” (i.e. rectangular bales wrapped by hand) in a box serving as a “nurse” for the three traffickers.
During the searches carried out this Saturday morning, the investigators discovered in one of the suspects an automatic pistol of caliber 9 mm, a pen-pistol of caliber 22 LR, a bulletproof vest, 16,000 euros and an account sheet. Finally, the Grenoble GIR seized the sum of 4,114 euros from the current account of one of the defendants, as criminal assets.