Two men, arrested during the interception in Isère of a «go-fast » composed of two vehicles traveling in convoy with on board nearly 23 kilos of cocaine intended for trafficking in Lyon and Grenoble, were indicted and imprisoned, the Grenoble prosecutor's office announced on Friday.
Drugs, for a value “estimated at more than a million euros”was packaged in hidden loaves “in a converted cache”indicated in a press release the public prosecutor Eric Vaillant. The two men, aged 24 and 30, are from the Lyon region.
“Seasoned network of traffickers”
They were arrested Tuesday on the RN7 between Chanas and Vienne according to the regional daily The Dauphiné Libéré. Months of investigation carried out by the Anti-Narcotics Office of the Isère department have highlighted “the existence of narcotics import routes from Spain carried out by a network of experienced traffickers and intended to supply the deal points in the Lyon and Grenoble metropolitan areas”specified Éric Vaillant.
Searches also led to the seizure of 100,500 euros at the home of the driver of the vehicle opening the convoy, added the prosecutor. They were indicted for “importation, acquisition, transport, possession, offer or transfer of drugs, criminal conspiracy and laundering of drug trafficking”. One of the two men was already known for drug dealings.
