The Mossos d'Esquadra and the Municipal Police of Terrassa have dismantled a drug den in the La Maurina neighborhood and have arrested a 66-year-old man on Vinaròs street, in the section located between Núria street and Santa Maria de Mazzarello street. The arrested individual is accused as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health.
The operation comes after months of investigation in an area where, on a regular basis, several witnesses reported long queues of people in the public street to enter the apartment and buy drugs. The operation is also presented as one of the first responses to the reinforcement of police coordination announced at the last Municipal Security Council of Terrassa.
The joint investigation ended with one arrest and drugs seized in La Maurina
The operation was coordinated by the Investigation Unit of the Mossos d'Esquadra of Terrassa and the Unit of Administrative Police and Investigation of the Municipal Police of Terrassa. Both forces had been monitoring the activity of the property for several months.
Inside the apartment, officers located various quantities of narcotic substances and cash. The search culminated in the arrest of the 66-year-old man, who is being investigated for an alleged crime against public health.
At that point on Vinaròs street, between Núria and Santa Maria de Mazzarello, residents and other witnesses had been observing a constant movement of buyers. The influx, with people waiting in the street before accessing the dwelling, had turned the apartment into a visible drug dealing hotspot in La Maurina.
Terrassa announced a police team to act in the neighborhoods at the Security Council
The dismantling coincides with the line of work presented at the last Municipal Security Council of Terrassa. There, the creation of a joint public health investigation team formed by the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Municipal Police was announced to respond more quickly to drug dealing points and drug trafficking in the neighborhoods.
The operation in La Maurina fits into this model of shared intervention between both forces in a very specific area of the municipality. Vinaròs street, where the apartment was located, falls within one of the environments where neighborhood pressure had made the property's activity most visible.
The most concrete detail of that coordination became known at the last Municipal Security Council of Terrassa, when the creation of a joint public health research team was announced to act against drug dealing and trafficking points in the neighborhoods.