Tarbes: Man flees municipal police and abandons bag filled with drugs
An individual caught consuming nitrous oxide fled when municipal police approached, leaving behind a rucksack containing a large quantity of narcotics.
Escape and bag of narcotics abandoned in Tarbes
Caught consuming nitrous oxide on Friday morning, a man fled as soon as a municipal police patrol approached, reports nrpyrenees.fr. He left behind his rucksack, in which officers found a large quantity of narcotic substances.
Tarbes mayor Pascal Claverie confirmed the facts: "Friday morning, during a patrol, municipal police came upon an individual consuming nitrous oxide." Upon seeing the officers, the individual fled without retrieving his belongings.
The case has since been handed over to the national police, who is now in charge of the investigation.
Pascal Claverie praised his officers' intervention: "This episode demonstrates once again the usefulness of regular and visible presence of our municipal police on the ground in cooperation with the national police." The mayor also wanted to thank the municipal police officers for "their vigilance and their daily commitment in service to the people of Tarbes".
Source: Google News FR — Crime (fr)