NDEA communiqué - NDEA makes arrests, seize two drug plantations |03 July 2017

The National Drugs Enforcement Agency (NDEA) seized two cannabis plants during the last weeks of June and recently made two arrests for the offence of trafficking in a controlled drug.

In two separate NDEA operations on Friday June 23, a total of 811 cannabis plants -- 800 in the Bougainville forest Anse Royale and 11 in Caryole Estate, Anse Aux Pins -- were uprooted and seized by NDEA agents. No one was arrested in these two operations and investigation into the matter is still ongoing.

On June 29 in the Glacis district, a team of NDEA agents arrested a 38-year-old fisherman for trafficking in a controlled drug and his 40-year-old sister, a custom officer, for conspiracy in this drug case. The man was arrested in possession of approximately 150 grammes of suspected heroin and after searching his sister’s bedroom a sum of R10,100 in different denominations was found.

Another sum of R14,875 in different denominations was also seized from the son of the suspect’s sister after he tried to run and escape with the money.

They were brought to the NDEA station for procedural formalities and later cell transferred to the Central Police Station with a case registered against them for the courts.

On Friday June 30, the man and his sister appeared before the Magistrate Court then released on a bail bond of R25,000 with the following conditions: surrender all their travelling documents and report daily to the Glacis Police Station.

They will reappear before the court on July 14, 2017.

The accompanying photos show the items seized during the NDEA operations.