Four held as 641 g cannabis found in Basse-Terre check
Police checking identities in Bas-du-Bourg, Basse-Terre, on the evening of 21 September 2023 arrested four Dominican nationals in an irregular situation and fined a man carrying a little cannabis herb. Officers then found abandoned bags holding 641 grams of cannabis herb and 23.58 grams of cannabis resin with other drugs, seizing it all for destruction.
🇫🇷 Quartier Bas-du-Bourg, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe · France
National police ran an identity-check operation in the Bas-du-Bourg district of
Basse-Terre on the evening of 21 September 2023 in the presence of the
Basse-Terre public prosecutor.[1]Officers arrested four people during that
identity check in Bas-du-Bourg.[1]The four were Dominican nationals in an
irregular situation on the territory and were held by border police officers.[1]Public-security police officers also issued a fixed criminal fine, known in
France as an amende forfaitaire délictuelle, to a person found carrying a small
quantity of cannabis herb.[1]
On the ground nearby, officers discovered several abandoned plastic bags holding
14 packets of contraband cigarettes together with the drugs.[1]Those bags
held 641 grams of cannabis herb and 23.58 grams of cannabis resin, along with
53.52 grams of crack, 119.03 grams of cocaine and 1.68 grams of methamphetamine.[1]
All of the products were seized for destruction.[1]The national police
restated that fighting drug trafficking is a priority.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Cannabis
664.58 g
Agency type
Border guard, Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Land border
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
RCIrci.fmFRRésine, herbe de cannabis, crack et cocaïne saisis lors d’un contrôle de police
Open questions the AI reported
The four people arrested were held over their immigration situation, and the account does not connect them or the fined person to the abandoned bags.
No charges, court appearance or outcome over the seized drugs were reported.
The account gives the drugs only as found on the ground and does not say who abandoned the bags.
No street value was published for any of the drugs.
Only one accessible source for this operation was found after searching in French.
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