Officers of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA) and the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) were on duty at the Sibanor checkpoint on 12 May 2011 when a Toyota pickup with registration number 6325F failed to stop.[1] The information was passed to PIU officers at the Faraba Sutu checkpoint, where the vehicle failed to stop again, and officers fired two warning shots before the driver diverted through the back way to Kembujeh village.[1] The driver passed through the Jah Oil company to fill the tank and abandoned the vehicle on seeing the officers.[1] Officers found nine bags and 86 bundles of suspected cannabis in the vehicle.[1] Four people were arrested: the vehicle’s owner Musa Samura, Modou Camara, a soldier attached to Yundum Barracks, Mamat Secka and Ebrima Jallow.[1] The driver, Mamadi Jarjue, Mustapha Secka and Omar remained at large.[1]
NDEA seizes cannabis pickup after Sibanor chase, arrests four
Gambia's drug agency seized nine bags and 86 bundles of cannabis from a Toyota pickup that fled the Sibanor checkpoint on 12 May 2011 and was abandoned in Kembujeh. Four people including a soldier were arrested, while the driver and two others stayed at large.
🇬🇲 Sibanor, West Coast Region · Gambia
- Arrested
- 4
- Agencies
- National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA), Police Intervention Unit (PIU)
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Photos and video
- Shown
- the publisher's file, through an image proxy
- Archived page
- Wayback Machine
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Arrested
- 4
- Agencies
- National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA); Police Intervention Unit (PIU)
- Agency type
- Anti-narcotics agency, Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Activity
- Trafficking
- Setting
- Vehicle
- Case stage
- Under investigation
- Force
- Shots fired
- Region
- West Coast Region
Sources
- The Pointthepoint.gmArchived copyNDEA intensifies crackdown on drug traffickers
Open questions the AI reported
- The whole account rests on one source; no second account of the chase was recovered.
- No weight for the nine bags and 86 bundles of cannabis was published.
- The driver and two other suspects were still at large with no outcome reported.
- Arrests reported at Serekunda, the ferry terminal and Kololi in the same week are different events left out here.
