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The National Police have arrested a 39-year-old Spanish man who was selling drugs while walking his dog in the Madrid district of San Blas, skipping the confinement decreed by the state of alarm before the pandemic of the coronavirus COVID-19. The arrest occurred on Saturday afternoon, when agents doing preventive work saw that the detainee was handing over to someone something that he immediately kept in his pocket. Later, he showed her a transparent wrapper that even brought him closer to his nose to smell it.

After a cache, the agents verified that the owner of the pet was carrying a transparent wrapper that contained more than six grams of hashish and an envelope with 40 euros divided into several bills. The detainee already had four records as the alleged person responsible for a crime against public health. On this occasion, he has also been denounced for breaching the containment measures, an infraction that the buyer of the substance has also allegedly committed.

It is not the first time that such an intervention has occurred since the confinement began. The same Saturday, the Police arrested a couple who trafficked drugs in Mallorca while carrying a baby with them. And ten days ago, agents arrested three young men who pretended to be food distributors to deliver narcotics to their homes.

527,000 fines for breach of confinement

According to official figures, the different police forces had proposed until Monday more than 527,000 sanctions for breaching the restrictions of the state of alarm decreed to deal with the coronavirus. Contrary to what happens with the sale of drugs, on other occasions it is the breakdown of the confinement that leads to other crimes when the offenders are discovered.

This same Tuesday, the National Police arrested a 19-year-old man in Jaén who was traveling with his mother on a moped and was not complying with the guidelines on travel. Upon stopping him, he began, according to the agents, "a wild and dangerous flight" in which the driver "not only exceeded the allowed speed, but also, on several occasions, invaded the opposite lane , having several vehicles to avoid it."

At one point in his flight, the arrested man lost control of the moped and both he and his mother fell to the ground. The woman, who was unharmed, related that at all times she had asked her son to stop. One of the police officers went to help the arrested man, who "far from putting down his attitude, resisted being helped, lashing out at an officer who was injured." He presents a broken hand that has been operated on.

The Civil Guard has also sanctioned this Tuesday in the province of Segovia a driver who had hidden his wife in the trunk to circumvent the confinement against the coronavirus. The two people have been punished for breaching traffic restrictions and for giving false information.

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