A 48-year-old Nigerian, Paul Chukwu, has been arrested by the Police in for being in possession of hard drugs, including cocaine.
According to reports available to NIGERIACRIME, the suspect, a resident of Nalasopara in the western part of Mumbai metropolitan region, was taken into custody after he was caught in Maharashtra’s Thane city.
He was said to have 32 grams of cocaine and 0.22 grams of LSD valued around Rs 14 (1.4 million Indian rupee) when he was apprehended by the police.
Crime Unit V’s Inspector Vikas Ghodke said acting on a tip, a police team staked out a hotel on Ghodbunder Road.
Chukwu was apprehended when he arrived with the narcotics.
His offence violates the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act; he has been booked at the Kasarvadavali police station.
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Meanwhile, the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday said it had seized 228kg of cannabis sativa also known as Indian hemp.
The anti-graft agency paraded the suspect, Ayodele Osuya, who was allegedly arrested on Wednesday with the drug in the state capital.
According to the state Commander of the agency, Mr Kayode Raji, men of the command had been on the trail of Osuya for a long time.
Speaking at the Command headquarters, he disclosed that the suspect concealed the Indian hemp in the booth of a Toyota Camry, weighing 228kg and worth multi-million naira.
He said, “We have been on his trail for a very long time and at a time, we also suspected that he was very suspicious and almost about to get wind he was being trailed, so we lay low.
“We used a lot of techniques so that our identity will be concealed, and at the end of the day, on the 29th of March, he was nabbed at a place called Quarter Guard Area of in Akure, Ondo State here.”
He revealed that the suspect was nabbed with “compressed cannabis, carefully stacked in the booth of the car, about 309 pieces of compressed cannabis, which weighs about 228kg, which is a huge number.”