Dakar’s Regional Narcotics Brigade (BRS), a unit of the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS), detained three men on 21 October and seized 36.5 kg of hashish, a cannabis resin.[1] The operation began after a tip-off that someone was urgently trying to sell a large quantity of drugs.[1] Officers arrested two suspects as they were about to make a delivery.[1] Police identified one as M. Dieng, a 52-year-old fan repairman living in Yeumbeul Asecna and known as Afia.[2] His accomplice was A. Ngom, a 47-year-old guard living in the same area.[2] Dieng denied owning the drugs and told investigators that K. Fall had given him the keys to his room.[2] Police arrested Fall, the third suspect, at 8:30 p.m. the same day.[1] Fall, aged 34, who presents himself as a Thiak-Thiak delivery rider living in Médina, admitted the facts during questioning.[2]
A search of the room found a bag containing 36 blocks of hashish weighing 36 kg in total.[1] The reported total for the operation was 36.5 kg of hashish, which Seneweb valued at more than 300 million CFA francs.[2] Officers also sealed the suspects’ mobile phones for the investigation.[1]
To intercept the network, police had placed a fictitious order for one block negotiated at 500,000 CFA francs.[2] The handover was fixed at the accomplice’s home in Yeumbeul Asecna.[2] Officers intervened there and arrested both men with the ordered sample.[2] Fall said the drugs had been entrusted to him by his younger sister M. F. Fall, known as Mamy, who had previously been arrested by the same unit.[2] The three men were placed in custody for criminal association, possession and domestic trafficking in an organised gang, plus complicity, after being informed of their rights including assistance by counsel.[1] The prosecutor was informed of the operation and the charges against the suspects.[2]
