On Saturday afternoon, in Dendropotamos, police officers of the Crime Prevention and Suppression Department of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate arrested three people.

The police officers arrested, on a parallel road of the National Highway at the height of Dendropotamos, two 42-year-old citizens, who were riding in a car and the passenger of the vehicle threw a bag of raw cannabis weighing 1,020 grams on the ground and then tried, unsuccessfully, to escape on foot.

In a subsequent control at the house of a 31-year-old citizen, who is wanted, in the area of ​​Dendropotamos, where the arrested had earlier procured the cannabis, a small package of raw cannabis weighing 16.25 grams, a gas pistol and the sum of 300 euros were found and confiscated. as derived from drug trafficking.

Outside the house, a 51-year-old foreigner was located and arrested, who had the role of the waiter, while in a search carried out in a house where he lives in the same building, a small package of raw cannabis with a total weight of 27.07 grams, a handy precision scale and a mobile phone were found and confiscated. , with which he carried out his illegal transactions.

Those arrested, with the case filed against them by the Direct Intervention Department of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate for violation of the Law on Drugs, will be taken to the competent Prosecutor.