Over 560 arrested in Albania during month of August

schedule09:49 - 3 Shtator, 2024

schedule 09:49 - 3 Shtator, 2024

The State Police has taken stock of the operations carried out during the month of August. In the published announcement, it is reported that 560 suspected perpetrators of various criminal offenses have been put in handcuffs after the completion of 105 police operations.

70 of them were nationally wanted; Also during the month of August, 62 cases of online stalking, carried out by a 34-year-old man who is under arrest in France, as well as another case of online stalking by a citizen, were revealed and documented by the Cybercrime Investigation Sector of DVP Tirana. Already arrested by the Tirana Police, which caused the removal of a minor from the apartment;

During the country-wide operations, 39 firearms, 7 shotguns, 3 silencers, detonator capsules, incendiary fuses, police equipment were seized;

6 kg of cannabis sativa, hundreds of doses of cannabis, cocaine and heroin, and 54,380 cannabis sativa plants and seedlings were destroyed;

While a criminal group that trafficked firearms from Albania to the United Kingdom, was hit thanks to the cooperation between the Albanian and British law enforcement authorities. 3 members of the group were arrested, while efforts are being made to capture the other 3. 25 firearms were seized.

/abcnews.al