A Guardia Civil policeman based in Almuñécar is up before a judge over the ‘absence’ of his narcotic samples used to train his canine charge.

The provincial Public Prosecutor considers that the policeman’s version; he says that they were stolen, is “complete contempt for the truth. ” In other words, he doesn’t believe him.

The said dog handler had received a total of 75 grams of cocaine, 56 grams of heroin and 760 grams of hashish in 2009 for the purpose of training his mutt.

Yet when, on the 5th of June, 2012 he went to Sevilla for the purpose of handing over the drugs that he had been issued with, he actually went there empty handed. Whilst there, he explained to a fellow policeman  that he hadn’t had any drug specimens for the last two years.

However, on that very day, once back at the Almuñécar Guardia Civil post, he made an official theft report, stating that somebody had stolen his ‘dog-training substances,’ from his official living accommodation within the Almuñécar police station, together with 100 euros in cash. The exact location was in a locker that had no lock (contradiction in terms, admittedly, but accurate.)

He said that he was not sure exactly when it had been stolen, but it must have been between the 17th of May 2012 and the 5th of June that same year.

The Public Prosecutor has recommended a 12-months’ fine at twelve euros a day, for his making a false theft report, so we’re talking about 4,000 euros.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)