Warning shots in Albina drugs check; man held with hashish in Moengo
A Surinamese police unit checked drug sales points in Albina and Moengo in Marowijne district on 4 November 2026, firing warning shots in Albina when a suspect ran off into a thicket. In Moengo police held a man known by the initials P.R. with an unspecified amount of hashish, which he said was for his own use, and kept him in pre-trial custody.
🇸🇷 Albina and Moengo, Marowijne district · Suriname
A police operation against drug dealing in eastern Suriname led to warning shots
in Albina and the arrest of a suspect in Moengo on Wednesday 4 November 2026.[1]A mixed police unit acted on continuing complaints and information from the
public about drug sales in public places in the district.[1]
In Albina officers approached two men at a sales stand along the waterfront,
near a spot known as ‘Beeld’, on information that they sold drugs there.[1]One of the men became agitated and the other ran away.[1]Police fired warning
shots, but the fleeing suspect ran on into a thicket.[1]The man who stayed at
the stand was taken to the Albina police station; no drugs were found on him,
but police found packaging material at the stand.[1]
In Moengo police arrested a man known by the initials P.R. at the Moengo Mall, a
spot police say is known as a drug sales point.[1]P.R. had an unspecified
quantity of hashish with him and said it was for his own use.[1]Police said
the man had earlier been arrested at the same location for violating the
narcotics law.[1]P.R. was described as an old acquaintance of the police,
arrested in front of the Moengo Mall.[2]
P.R. was handed to the Moengo police and brought before an assistant public
prosecutor, and after consultation with the Surinamese Public Prosecution
Service he was held in verzekering, the country’s pre-trial custody during an
investigation.[1]
Photos and video
Photo published with the report of the man held with hashish in Moengo, captioned 'man met hasj aangehouden in Moengo'; no credit given.Photo details
No weight or street value was published for the hashish found on P.R.; the amount is given only as 'een hoeveelheid hasj'.
No charge, trial date or court outcome is reported beyond the decision to hold P.R. in verzekering pending investigation.
The two men approached in Albina were not identified and neither was charged in these accounts; the man taken to the station is described as brought there to calm down, with no drugs found on him.
Police did not say whether the man who fled in Albina was later traced.
All available accounts reproduce the same Korps Politie Suriname statement; a keynews.sr version could not be opened (HTTP 403).
Only one distinct account of this event was found: Dagblad Suriname repeats the same Korps Politie Suriname statement as Waterkant.
Police arrested two people at Tamansarie on 5 November 2026 after a tip that a dealer was selling drugs from his car near two schools in Tamanredjo. Officers found crack cocaine and marijuana plus packaging material and a precision scale in the car; the suspected seller was detained while the drug user arrested with him was released.
Suriname's Narcotica Brigade arrested a 53-year-old man at an address on the Bealaan in Paramaribo on 3 November 2026 after he tried and failed to flush 56 grams of marijuana down the toilet. Police held him in verzekering, Suriname's pre-trial custody, after consulting prosecutors.
Police in eastern Suriname arrested 37-year-old civil servant O.S. in Mariënburg on 31 October 2026 with 72 grams of hashish. He said it was for personal use, but he is also accused of selling drugs to young people and was placed in pretrial detention.
A Suriname police officer was arrested at the Burnside checkpoint in Coronie on 24 August 2026 after officers found two suitcases of suspected marijuana in his vehicle. Police held him in custody and sent the case to their internal investigation department.
