A 48-year-old Greek man was arrested for drug trafficking and possession in Ag. Galini of Agios Vasilios in Rethymnon. According to relevant information on the case, the Narcotics Prosecution Department/SA of Rethymno received information that a person possesses and traffics quantities of narcotics. Police officers moved operationally, they located the perpetrator driving in a private car owned by him, on the provincial road Ag. Galini-Rethymno and they immobilized him. A check followed and found inside the vehicle, a quantity of cocaine, with a total weight of one hundred and fifty one grams and in the possession of the perpetrator, a mobile phone device and the sum of one hundred and twenty Euros, as coming from the purchase and sale of drugs. Then the police officers carried out a search at the perpetrator’s house, in the presence of a judicial officer, where they found and confiscated: “a working Smith & Wesson brand revolver, caliber 0.38 special, seventy-four full cartridges of caliber 0.38 special, a sum of one thousand eight hundred Euros derived from buying and selling narcotics and a mobile phone device as a means of facilitating the commission of a crime”.

The perpetrator was arrested and will be brought before the Public Prosecutor of Rethymnon, while the seized amount of one thousand nine hundred and twenty euros will be sent to the Deposit Fund. The I.X.E car was seized as a means of transporting narcotic substances and the case is being investigated by the Narcotics Prosecution Department of the Rethymnon Police Department.