They were arrested yesterday Thursday in Markopoulos five people, of which the three were wanted, as they had pending arrest warrants and a ten-year prison sentence, for attempted murder, illegal carrying and use of weapons, as well as for robbery as an accomplice.

The five people were located in neighboring houses and their arrest was made after a special operational action, in which police officers from the Security sub-directorate of South-Eastern Attica and the Markopoulou-Mesogaia Security department participated, with the assistance of police officers from the Crime Prevention and Suppression Team (OPK). E) as well as police drug detection dogs.

According to ELAS, the three fugitives, in sight of the policemen, attempted unsuccessfully to escape by jumping over a wire fence, while at the same time in an adjacent woman was trying to destroy drugs substances in a makeshift wood stove, but was stopped by the police before completing her deed.

In this context, the five people were arrested and charged with the respective offenses of disobedience, and the violation of arms and drug laws.

In searches carried out in the two houses, they found and confiscated: 2 pistols, 2 magazines with a total of 26 9mm cartridges, 59.4 grams of heroin in rock form, 12.9 grams of cocaine, 52 drug tablets, a precision electronic scale, 4 mobile phones and 2,370 euros.

Those arrested were taken to the competent prosecuting authority.