Two gangs that worked together and trafficked drugs in Attica and Thessalonikiwere dismantled by the Lavreotiki Security Department.

According to ELAS, during an organized operation, yesterday morning, Thursday May 25, in Lavrio and Vrilissia, seven members of the two criminal organizations were arrested.

Four people, aged 18, 19, 22, and 47 years old, were arrested from the first gang and three, aged 30, 31, and 58 years old, from the second. A case file was filed against them for, as the case may be, violation of the law on addictive substances, weapons and theft by complicity. At the same time, other people involved are also being sought.

As emerged from the police investigation, the first criminal organization was trafficking drugs in areas of Lavrio, Attica and in Thessaloniki, at least since November 2022. As for the second spiral, it was supplying the first with large quantities of narcotics, while at the same time it was trafficking drugs in areas of the northern suburbs of Attica.

As ELAS estimates, the profits of the two criminal organizations exceed the amount of 160,000 euros.

In police searches carried out at the houses of the accused, in Lavrio and Vrilissia, they found and confiscated, among others: 97.8 grams of cocaine, 11.6 grams of heroin, 2 kilograms and 490 grams of raw cannabis, 0.8 grams of cannabis (chocolate), 11.2 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 3 improvised cannabis cigarettes, 3 iron fists, 73 cartridges, 21 mobile phones, 4,935 euros, 2 cars and a motorcycle used as means of drug trafficking.

In addition, according to ELAS, a burglary-theft was discovered at a home in Lavrio, on January 23, 2023, from where the defendants removed a safe with gold and a sum of money. The perpetrators of the theft were identified as the 22-year-old, a member of the criminal organization and his accomplice who is wanted.

All those arrested were taken to the Criminal Prosecutor of Athens.