Yesterday afternoon in Drama, two citizens were arrested by police officers of the Drama Security Department, against whom a case file was filed for violations of the laws on weapons, flares, fireworks, flares and child safety gates and on addictive substances as the case may be.

In more detail, in the context of a targeted police action to deal with the illegal trafficking of firearms and ammunition and after using information, the above police officers carried out a check on a store selling hunting equipment, during which a domestic offender (owner of the store) was arrested to carries out illegal loading of hunting cartridges for marketing, without permission from the competent Authority, having installed suitable logistical equipment for this purpose in the store.

Subsequently, in a search carried out in the shop, in a storage area and in the home of the perpetrator, the following were found and confiscated:

48 packages containing gunpowder with a total weight of 43 kilograms and 640 grams,
7 cartridge loading presses,
3 hunting cartridge packaging marking stamps,
packages of pellets (drams), pellet balls and empty shotgun shells
2,404 handmade hunting cartridges,
474 firearm cartridges,
50 pellets,
1 pistol with two magazines,
3 diopters,
4 naval flares,
1 spare shotgun barrel,
2 pepper sprays,
26 crossbows with 403 arrows,
2 cuffs and
4 precision scales.
In addition, during the search in the above house, they were found in the possession of the second perpetrator and two iron fists and a small amount of raw cannabis were confiscated.

Those arrested will be taken to the District Attorney of Drama, while the preliminary investigation is conducted by the Drama Security Department.