Officers from the Security Support and Prevention Unit (USAP) of the Valencia Local Police arrested two men after being caught during a traffic stop with nine cell phones stolenincluding seven iPhones and packaging of cocaine.
The arrest took place as officers were conducting a static check near the Bus station from Valencia, as the organization indicates in a press release.
In front of the police checkpoint, the car in which the two men were travelling made a manoeuvre to avoid the vehicle, so the police stopped it. At that moment, the police noticed that the co-driver, upon seeing them, was trying to hide something in the vehicle.
Once arrested, the officers searched both of them, during which they found two Google Pixel phones, 575 euros in bills for the driver, and an old Samsung phone usually used for selling drugs.
In addition, they also inspected the interior of the vehicle, in which they found a total of nine mobile devices. (seven of them iPhone) distributed in different parts of the car and wrapped in aluminum foil probably to avoid their geolocation. When questioned about the origin of these mobile phones, both admitted that they had been stolen, but said that they “were only dedicated to selling them, they did not steal them.”
Inside the car, several plastic packages with cocaine and a precision scale, as well as a defense spray not authorized by the Ministry of Health, which is considered a prohibited weapon.
For all this, the officers proceeded to arrest the two men, aged 42 and 33, who were placed in custody at the Central Inspectorate of the Guard. The vehicle was moved to Municipal deposit and several phones were returned to their owners, who said they had been stolen a few days earlier, without knowing who had stolen them.
