The Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has requested a four-year prison sentence and a fine of nearly 2,500 Euros for an inmate at Tenerife II prison who was found with drugs inside his body during a medical examination.
In the statement, the Prosecution indicates that the man was taken to the University Hospital of Canarias (HUC) for a check-up. While he was being escorted by police officers, the medical staff informed them that they had detected a foreign object inside his body.
Specifically, it was a capsule five and a half centimetres long by one and a half centimetres wide lodged in the rectal area, containing cocaine, which was confirmed upon expulsion.
In total, there were nearly 13 grams with a purity of 72.4% that would have had a value of around eight hundred Euros once sold on the illicit market.
The trial is scheduled to take place next week at the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
