Suspects with criminal records arrested in 6kg drug bust
They included “a high-profile drug trafficker.”
01 Aug 2019, 9:00 AM
Five suspects in custody over a 6kg drug bust were previously arrested several times on assault and drug-related charges.
The five Maldivian men were arrested in Malé last Tuesday after a seven-day operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Department, drug intelligence and the Upper North Division, according to police chief Mohamed Hameed.
The suspects included “a high-profile drug trafficker,” he tweeted.
Upon arriving in the capital from a northern island, they were caught with six large rubber packets containing illicit narcotics, police said. They were suspected to belong to a drug trafficking network.
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