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The TJDF (Federal District Court of Justice) ordered yesterday the preventive detention of the Civil Police delegate, Marcelo Marinho de Noronha, arrested on Friday (4) for alleged drug trafficking. It was discovered with a potting plant at home. In addition to the deputy, his wife and two children are in preventive detention for the same reason.
The defense of the family denies the trafficking and argues that the planting in industrial molds was for medical use for depression and that the delegate intended to set up a company to sell cannabidiol, an active ingredient in marijuana. The cultivation of the plant is prohibited in Brazil.
The plantation was found in a house that the family maintained in São Sebastião, an administrative region of the Federal District. At the site, there were more than 100 feet of marijuana in the yard, in addition to stored plant seeds.
Marcelo currently works for the Permanent Disciplinary Committee of the Internal Affairs Division of the Civil Police, a department that investigated the anonymous complaint that resulted in the arrest.
In note to TwitterThe corporation said it could not transmit information about the case because “the internal procedures are confidential”, but confirmed that the police direction “requested the exoneration of the delegate involved in this act.”
The attorney for the arrested family, Cléber Lopes, said the arrest was for alleged drug trafficking. He denied that those involved had any connection with any kind of illicit sale of the narcotic.
In addition to the delegate, Teresa Cristina Cavalcante Lopes and two children, Marcos Rubenich Marinho de Noronha and Ana Flavia Rubenich Marinho de Noronha, are also in prison. The lawyer said that he should come tomorrow with a request for release from the TJDF in favor of the family.
Marijuana was for depression, says defense
According to Cléber Lopes, the Civil Police requested the arrest of the family after monitoring those involved for ten days. Investigations allegedly alleged that the chief of police visited the house twice during the day, reinforcing the suspicion of possible drug trafficking.
Marijuana seeds were found in the house of a delegate in DF
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“The police described completely routine events of the family, such as the fact that he goes to the farm twice a day. Since marijuana is a plant, you have to water it in the morning and in the afternoon. There is no evidence of trafficking, like no external fact or someone who bought marijuana from you. I have no doubt about the acquittal on merits, “says the lawyer.
The defense alleges that Noronha has a prescription obtained in the United States that directs him to use cannabidiol as an alternative treatment for anxiety and depression. However, the defense did not know if the prescription is valid in Brazil. Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) prohibits the cultivation of the plant in national territory.
Delegate destined to sell cannabidiol
According to the defense, the delegate intended to have a company to sell cannabidiol, in the event of the release of the substance by Anvisa, which would justify the number of plants grown on the property. You would even have templates for future sales contracts.
“They believed that by planting and developing, they could produce commercially when Anvisa allowed it. They even drew up the contract of the company that was formed in the future. Is the one who is a drug trafficker going to make a contract for a cannabidiol company?” lawyer.
