Gendarmes of the Brigade Territoriale d’Aéré Lao arrested three Senegalese men at about 5 am on 26 January 2026 during a road check.[1] The three men were travelling in a Peugeot 407.[2]

The search of the car found fourteen one-kilogram packets of Indian hemp hidden in a bag of livestock feed on the front passenger seat, 14 kilograms in total.[1] Public broadcaster RTS reported the same fourteen packets, the same hiding place and the same 14-kilogram total.[3] The gendarmes confiscated the Peugeot 407 used to transport the drug and a Haojue motorcycle they said probably belonged to the suspects.[1] RTS reported that the car and the motorcycle were seized along with the drug.[3]

The three men were placed in custody and are to face prosecution for drug trafficking.[1] The operation was part of the national plan against drug trafficking run by the Gendarmerie nationale.[3] Dakaractu published the Gendarmerie nationale’s own note describing the same road check and the same fourteen packets in the livestock-feed bag.[2] Actusen reported that the Brigade Territoriale d’Aéré Lao broke up the trafficking network on 26 January 2026 at about 5 am, citing the Gendarmerie nationale.[4]