Sant Antoni Local Police arrested a man on Monday after finding more than a kilo of ecstasy on him after giving him the stop for driving and simultaneously using the cell phone, the City Council has reported.

The events occurred around 12.50 hours. A patrol that circulated on Doctor Fleming Avenue observed the driver of a vehicle with a cell phone in his hand, so they stopped him to sanction him for this infraction.

Once stopped, the officers observed how the driver was throwing a bag into a planter plastic bag. After searching the car and finding five bags containing 2,560 pills – weighing 1,115 grams – the car was removed to the police impound, “while the detainee was transferred to the premises of the Local Police to carry out the appropriate proceedings”, details the City Council.

The Local Police further verified that the driving license provided by the man had been invalid since 2020he was also arrested for this reason, as well as for a crime against public health in the modality of substances that cause serious damage to health.