PORTO SANTO AIRPORT SECURITY SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS IN PRISON FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Madeira Court today sentenced a Porto Santo airport security guard and another man to effective sentences of around two years in prison for the crime of trafficking synthetic drugs on that island.

The president of the Central Instance of the Comarca of Madeira that judged the process, Carla Meneses, justified the application of the effective penalty despite the criminal framework reduced by the court, considering the consumption of this type of substance to be “a scourge”.

The Porto Santo airport security guard was sentenced to two years and two months in prison and the other defendant to one year and eight months in prison.

The court also determined that the airport security guard, who has been awaiting trial in pre-trial detention since February 2022, be returned to freedom, as this measure of coercion is not foreseen for the crime for which he was convicted.

The sentences will be served after the final judgment has passed.

The trial began on January 31.

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12 Responses

  1. Danny
    Not only the locals but also the tourists that bring in the drugs in can be by airport and sea . And a task force should be created to tackle this problem . And the UK and USA situation it is even worse than the Madeira and stop generalizing .

  2. Madeira is losing the war on drugs Isabel stops your nonsense people are entitled to their own opinion.

    1. Danny your opinion is always generalized . Beside mention the locals you also should mention the tourists that do the same . Wasn’t in Madeira coast a boat with tourists caught with drugs recently and they been given 7 years in jail at least I talk about both sides and you don’t .

  3. Madeira needs to clean up on the drugs problem there is many addicts now on the island considering the small population? Where there is drugs there is crime.

  4. Danny
    You need stop to implying that half of the population in Madeira are dealing and selling drugs and the other half all using drugs this will be leading you to problems and in the future to prosecutions, And neither you can say a single word about the Madeira Government program to deal with this and their to the work and the the police work is doing at least you could acknowledge that they are trying doing something that neither you cant acknowledge anything .And I don’t go saying anything about your country. I think in the UK the situation isn’t very good at all and it is becoming worse. And I don’t go implying or even generalizing that half of the UK population is dealing and using drugs and even the famous county lines that are destroying the small and big communities . And neither am I implying that the Uk government and the police don’t do anything when they do as the opposite of you likes to generalize that the Madeira government and the police doesn’t do absolutely nothing and this isn’t correct or even right . .

  5. Whatever Isabel? It’s not the Madeira it used to be ? Now it’s full of drugs criminals and overcrowded with broke tourists on a expensive island with local housing crisis.

    1. So do yourself and us all a big favour and don’t come or leave. From your comments either you live or visit a different Madeira from the rest of us.

  6. Danny
    No country or even island are perfect everyone was more a less the same problems ones more than others but you are over generalizing complete out of the range . And my advise if you not happy with the Island move out this way you can give a place to someone else that will respect more the Island and their people opposite of you. Try to go the Ilhas das Desertas or the other next where the Ilhéu Chão were the goats live their you will have less space to live opposite of the big one but you will find something else to complain again . 😍

  7. Danny
    Stop generalizing and you cant go implying that half of the population in Madeira are dealing and selling drugs and the other half all using drugs this will be leading you to problems and isn’t very nice to no one .I don’t go saying this things about your country where their good things and bad but not generalizing .

  8. Danny
    Well it is very clear and obvious what you were saying and commenting around where and implying in very explicit statements one of them that you did write were “Now it’s full of drugs criminals and overcrowded with broke tourists on a expensive island with local housing crisis. ” and the other that you did reply to George Nabbs “We don’t need to go that far back ? just back to before the pandemic started when it was a beautiful island not so many tourists drugs and crime ? imagine what Madeira will become in a short few years? It will become a zombie drug addicts paradise riddled with crime ? and the government does not care, only interested in tourists ” . Don’t insult me and the others anyone around can see that very clear what your views are what you been implying over the place with your comments that are over generalizing views and the evidence is over the place . And like I said it is a insult and complete disrespect towards the Island and their people . And no one is denying that there isn’t problems like I said many times but not over gernalizing like you been doing .

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