The crime of drug dealing increased from July to August of this year, going from 136 complaints to 150, which represents ten percent.
According to statistics, from August 2023 to August of this year, there was also an increase, going from 53 events of this magnitude to 150, thus representing 183 percent more.
The above, according to the security table indicators prepared by the Ministry of Public Security and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), through Ficosec.
In the cumulative total of the year, the neighborhoods with the most investigation files for the crime of drug dealing were the Central Zone with 24; Villa Juárez with 24, La Revolución with 22 and La Obrera with 21.
In 2022, the average was 222 open folders each month, with a maximum of 282 in October and a minimum of 149 in April, while in 2023 the average dropped to 171 monthly cases, with figures between 134 and 217.
According to article 475 of the General Health Law in force in Mexican territory, drug dealing is committed by anyone who, without authorization, trades or even supplies free narcotics in quantities less than a thousand times the amount that a person is allowed to carry for personal consumption.
Those people who are caught with said doses and the intention to sell or supply it is proven, may be subject to between four and eight years in prison and fines.
The Central Zone District Prosecutor’s Office obtained 48 court orders, issued against the same number of defendants for crimes against health in the form of simple possession of narcotics.
The accused are people who were arrested on different dates and places in the city of Chihuahua, in possession of drugs, a crime for which they were placed at the disposal of agents of the Public Ministry of the Investigation Unit against Drug Dealings who are proceeding criminally.
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