Undercover policing and close collaboration with customs officers, nabbed a couple who had been sent a parcel from abroad containing a kilogram of synthetic drugs. After intercepting the suspicious parcel containing the illegal substance that had arrived from Holland, the police were informed by customs and sent a decoy to its intended recipient instead. The fake package was accepted and led the police to descend on the Żurrieq couple and charge them in court with drug importation and possession in circumstances denoting it was not for their personal use. Keith Vassallo, 35, and his wife Maria Christina, 28, both public sector employees, appeared before Magistrate Josette Demicoli and pleaded not guilty to all the charges brought against them, including that they committed the crime within a distance of 100 metres from a place frequented by young people. Keith Vassallo alone was further charged with cocaine and heroin possession and with relapsing. The court heard how the drug squad had already been following the couple’s tracks at the time of the receipt of the package, after having been tipped off about their involvement with a consignment of drugs. A search of the...