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Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 8 August 2024

    

Source: Joy News

CID and NACOC destroy sacks of marijuana and cocaine

The substances were seized on the high seas The substances were seized on the high seas

Armed officers from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, under the supervision of the Accra Circuit Court and the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), have destroyed 242 sacks of marijuana, 16 kilograms of cocaine, and buckets of heroin.

The burning of these narcotics, carried out at Osu Beach in Accra, is part of a broader effort to dismantle the criminal networks involved in drug trafficking in Ghana.

The substances were seized on the high seas, and their destruction was ordered by the Accra Circuit Court to combat the production, sale, and usage of illicit drugs in the country.

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