HIBAPRESS – Mohammed Manfalouti
The Royal Gendarmerie elements of the Thlat Loulad center in the Settat brigade managed to arrest two people with criminal records, caught in possession of a significant quantity of copper wires on board a utility vehicle. They were taken to the Royal Gendarmerie center in Thlat Loulad to deepen the investigation and reveal the source of the seized items. They were placed under custody by order of the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal in Settat, pending the completion of the investigation and the taking of the necessary legal measures.
Sources at HIBAPRESS added that the qualitative operation came in implementation of the directives of the Regional Commander of the Royal Gendarmerie in Settat, and under the direct supervision of the commander of the Settat brigade, in the early hours of this morning, following the setting of a tight trap and a careful tracking of the movements of the suspects, in the Douar of Ouled Hamama, belonging to the municipality of M'Kartou. Field investigations resulted in the seizure of a Toyota pickup truck loaded with a large quantity of copper wires.
The same sources indicated that the quantity of seized copper had reached more than one ton, while research and investigations are still ongoing to arrest all potential suspects in this criminal network.
