Liberian presidential motorcade chief arrested with 315 kg of marijuana
Liberian joint security forces arrested Superintendent Perry Dolo, commander of the president's motorcade escort, with three others crossing from Sierra Leone at Bo Waterside on 9 November 2013 with about 315 kg of marijuana worth about $4 million.
🇱🇷 Bo Waterside border crossing, Grand Cape Mount County · Liberia
Liberia’s joint security forces arrested Superintendent Perry Dolo of the Liberian National Police, the commander of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s motorcade escort division, with three others as they crossed the Liberian border from Sierra Leone on Saturday 9 November 2013.[1][2]They were travelling in a jeep carrying about 315 kg of high-grade marijuana worth about $4 million.[1][2][3]
President Sirleaf congratulated the joint forces on the arrests and the smashing of the smuggling racket.[1]The jeep had at one time served as the lead car in the president’s convoy.[3]The team that made the arrest at Bo Waterside also detained a Sierra Leonean former soldier in the vehicle and a second Liberian police officer.[3]
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