In the early afternoon of 7th October a GNR bicycle patrol at the municipal park in Loulé saw an individual selling drugs to consumers. The man was approached and arrested and some 30 individual doses of heroin were seized together with cash – €455

During a subsequent search of his house in Parragil, Loulé sufficient heroin to make 1065 individual doses of heroin, two grinding mills, €150 and three precision scales were also found.

The detainee, who has served time in prison on charges of drug trafficking and fraud was bought before the Judicial District Court.