Two arrested in Dakar over 32 hashish balls hidden in shoes
Senegal's Ocrtis arrested two suspected intermediaries in Dakar after 32 balls of hashish were found hidden in shoe soles in a Casablanca-Dakar parcel. A controlled delivery with substituted goods led to the arrests on 1 November, while the final recipient was still sought.
Two people were arrested in Dakar in an operation by Ocrtis, the anti-drug
office, against a suspected hashish-trafficking network between Casablanca and
Dakar.[1][2][3][4][5][6]The first person arrested was M. M. Mbacké, aged 25, who described
himself as a livestock breeder living at HLM 5.[1][2][7]A second outlet fully names
him as Mouhamadou Mourtalla Mbacké and dates his interception to 1 November.[8]The second person arrested was R. Kane, aged 28, who described herself as a
sales agent and was detained at Soprim Extension.[1][2][7][3]A second outlet fully
names her as Rokhaya Kane and says she was intercepted the same day.[8]Questioned about the seized goods, Kane acknowledged acting as an intermediary
and gave investigators the identity of the consignment’s final recipient, who
was still being actively sought.[1][9][2][10]
Officers found eight pellets of hashish, made up of 32 balls, carefully hidden
in the soles of shoes carried in a parcel.[1][2][7][3][4][5][6]A search of Mbacké’s home
recovered one more ball of hashish along with two started packs of Alprazolam,
which is not counted as cannabis.[1][2][7][3][4][5][6]
On 31 October a Senegalese GP, a parcel courier shuttling between the two
cities, alerted police after noticing a strong suspect smell coming from shoes
inside a parcel.[1][2][10][3]The drugs were first handed to the Moroccan police.[1][9][2][7][10]Ocrtis then set up a controlled delivery with the goods substituted in order to
identify the people involved in the circuit.[1][9][2][7][10][6]
The woman had commissioned a parcel courier to collect the parcel at Parcelles Assainies Unité 08 at about 20:00, and officers carrying out a watched delivery then identified and arrested her.[3][4][5]The man was arrested near the Zinc market in Pikine at about 19:00 on 1 November 2026 as he was about to collect the parcel.[3][4][5]He was placed in custody for criminal association, international hashish trafficking and money laundering.[3][4][5]The woman’s arrest followed a related seizure in Casablanca of eight 100-gram hashish slabs and nine hashish balls hidden in a pair of shoes, 500 grams in all.[3][4][5]A search of her home at Soprim Extension found three pairs of shoes identical to the one used to hide the hashish seized in Morocco.[3][4][5]
The report says the woman said her role was limited to acting as an intermediary for delivering the parcel before she gave the recipient’s identity.[11]Casa24 names the Senegalese agency as the central office for the fight against illicit drug trafficking, and does not say how the drugs reached it.[11]
The operation followed intelligence received on 31 October 2026 about the arrival of suspicious parcels from Morocco.[6]
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The shoes with hashish concealed in the soles at the centre of the Casablanca-Dakar casePhoto details
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PressAfrikpressafrik.comFRAxe Casablanca - Dakar : 8 boulettes de haschisch dissimulées dans des chaussures, deux personnes arrêtées
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Open questions the AI reported
No weight for the hashish was published, only counts of eight pellets, 32 balls and one additional ball, so no kilogram figure can be recorded.
The two packs of Alprazolam are a non-cannabis substance and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome were reported.
The identity of the final recipient was not published and that person was still being sought.
The linked mention of a separate seizure of 180 kg of hashish in Morocco is a different event and is left out of this report.
The parcel was flagged on 31 October and the arrests were reported on 1 November; the incident date uses the arrest date.
One account puts the Moroccan seizure that preceded the woman's arrest at 500 grams, whereas the earlier reports describe the Casablanca consignment as 32 balls inside four shoes without giving its weight; the 500 grams are treated separately.
The 500 grams of hashish were seized in Casablanca, not in Senegal, and are not recorded as a Senegalese seizure.
The report's summary still says the final recipient was being sought; this account describes the woman as the parcel's addressee, and the relationship between the two is not resolved.
The outcome of the custody and any charges after the prosecutor was notified are not reported.
Casa24 gives no weight for the hashish, reporting only balls of the drug, so the existing open question about a kilogram figure remains.
Casa24 refers to the central office for the fight against illicit drug trafficking without naming ocrtis, and does not say how the Moroccan seizure was transferred to Senegal.
This account calls the Soprim Extension woman the addressee of the second consignment, while the report records her as an intermediary who named a final recipient still being sought.
The stated Casablanca total of 500 grams does not match its own breakdown of eight 100-gram slabs plus nine balls, so no separate kilogram figure is taken from this account.
The account dates the intelligence note to 31 October 2026 but does not say where the parcel originated beyond Morocco, nor why the goods were described as having passed through Casablanca.
Police from the Thiaroye arrondissement station arrested a suspected drug dealer in Wakhinane, Dakar, seizing 67.85 kg of cannabis from his car. Officers staked out the alley following an intelligence tip-off, chased down the fleeing driver, and impounded the vehicle along with tools and an unstated sum of cash.
On 7 November 2026, Faidherbe gendarmes arrested 34-year-old Guinean watchman A. Camara near Dakar's Autonomous Port with 500 g of cannabis plus 13 retail sachets. He admitted trafficking and was held in custody while police hunt his alleged supplier.
Parcelles Assainies police arrested nine people in a three-day anti-drug operation at cité Mixta and Gueule Tapée market in Dakar from 30 October to 1 November 2026. Officers seized 69 cannabis cones and 5 grams of hashish plus 12 tramadol and Alpraz tablets, then referred all nine suspects to the prosecutor on 3 November.
A 25-year-old plumber was arrested at his home in the Frontière quarter of Cambérène 1, Dakar, at about 10:30 pm, where police found four kilos of Indian hemp in four yellow sachets inside a red bag. He admitted the facts and said he acted for his own account. Held for offering or selling Indian hemp, he was referred to the Dakar prosecutor, naming a Casamance supplier and a Ngor intermediary.