Three suspected drug traffickers arrested at Madeira Airport with heroin and cocaine

Three suspected drug traffickers arrested at Madeira Airport with heroin and cocaine
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Three residents of Madeira, two men and one woman, were arrested at Madeira Airport after authorities found about 11.7 kilograms of heroin and 1.174 kilograms of cocaine in their luggage.

The suspects, aged between 38 and 53, are being held by the Polícia Judiciária and will be heard on Friday at the Tribunal da Comarca da Madeira in Funchal; the seized heroin represents roughly 117,000 individual doses and the cocaine about 5,870 doses on the illicit market.

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