The Urban Police intercepted a drug scooter with the trim filled with methamphetamines. For some time now, electric scooters are emerging as the preferred means of transportation for the machacas in charge of transporting small quantities of drugs, much more than bicycles, especially around the center.
The events took place this Thursday in Plaza Sant Pere and its surroundings, in the neighborhood of Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera. The email in question seemed very clumsy. Municipal sources detailed yesterday that a patrol of plainclothes urban guards were struck by the nervousness of the pilot of a personal mobility vehicle. Apparently, the man tried to be very aware of everything that was happening in the square.
Then a patrol of uniformed agents from the Urban Police appeared, and the man avoided them in a very brazen manner. And then, as he walked away from him, he began to look over his shoulder at every moment, repeatedly, to check if the uniformed municipal police were following him. The plainclothes officers kept an eye on him. After a couple of blocks they saw how the man began to manipulate the left turn signal trim of the scooter, and then placed something inside. The police found there a bag with nine grams of methamphetamine, MDMA.
The electric scooter replaced the bicycle as the preferred means of transportation for these managers. Cars and motorcycles are more cumbersome. Bikes abounded as police pressure tried to stop the drug rackets, so that customers would not crowd around the floors that function as distribution points and attract the attention of the police, but as a result of the pandemic they began to predominate. the scooters. Thus, those in charge of retail distribute small quantities throughout Ciutat Vella, around the Baluard venipuncture room, the ground floor of the Social Security offices, Josep Maria Folch i Torres square…