20 kg of cannabis seized at Bongo as courier flees
Police at Bongo seized 20 kg of cannabis and a motorcycle after a courier abandoned them and fled into a rubber plantation on the night of 20-21 June 2026. No suspect was arrested, and the Grand-Bassam prosecutor opened an investigation to trace the load's owner.
Officers of the Aboisso branch of the DPSD, the Ivorian drug-squad police,
mounted a night operation at Bongo in Grand-Bassam department on 20-21 June
2026.[1][2]At about 22:00 they spotted a motorcyclist matching the tip and he
fled through a rubber field along a muddy track.[1][2]After a short chase he
abandoned his motorcycle and a green bag, then disappeared into the plantation.[1][2]Searches around the site failed to catch him, so no arrest was made.[1][2]
Inside the bag officers found 20 blocks of cannabis weighing 20 kg in total.[1][2]Police put the haul’s market value at 1.2 million CFA francs, or 60,000
francs per block.[1][2]They also seized the unregistered black motorcycle and
took it with the drugs to the Aboisso police station.[1][2]
The Aboisso duty team had deployed after an anonymous tip about a man carrying a
large quantity of drugs on a black motorcycle.[1][2]The informant said he would
cross a rubber company’s hevea field at Bongo to reach Bonoua.[1][2]The
prosecutor at the Grand-Bassam court of first instance was informed and an
investigation was opened to find the cargo’s owner.[1][2]
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Seized blocks of cannabis laid out after the Bongo operation.Photo details
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Only one accessible account of this seizure was found after searches in French, so no second source corroborates it.
The operation spanned the night of Saturday 20 to Sunday 21 June 2026; 21 June is used as the incident date.
The suspect's identity is unknown and no arrest, charge or court outcome was reported; an investigation to find the cargo's owner was still under way.
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