A man who went to a police station while carrying drugs in his parked car has inadvertently led the police to discover a crack cocaine lab at his father’s house. Josef Zammit, 30 and living in Marsascala, was arrested on Tuesday when he showed up at the Żabbar police station to sign a bail book. He had significant cash on him and sachets of suspected cocaine and heroin hidden in his car. Police searched Zammit’s house and found cannabis plants and grass and then proceeded to search the home of his father, 68-year-old Mario Brignone of Cospicua. Brignone had some cash hidden inside domestic appliances, but the real discovery was a key hidden under a doormat that matched the door of a property opposite his home. Inside that building, police say they found more drugs and cash as well as a fully-fledged crack cocaine lab, prosecuting inspector Mark Anthony Mercieca told a court on Tuesday. Both father and son have been charged with possession of cocaine and heroin under circumstances indicating that the drugs were not intended solely for personal use, cultivation and possession of cannabis, use or transfer of property derived from crime as well as relapsing. Both were...
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