Gendarmes seize 1,400 kg of Indian hemp from a taxi near Gaoual
Gendarmes and police in Gaoual prefecture, Guinea, stopped a taxi at a roadblock by the Hérama classified forest on 21 February 2018 and seized 1,400 kg of Indian hemp, acting on a tip from residents. Three men were detained and questioned over the cargo, which the state news agency AGP said was bound for the Koumbia sub-prefecture.
🇬🇳 Forêt classée de Hérama, Gaoual, Boké Region · Guinea
Security forces from the Gaoual prefecture, gendarmes and police, seized1,400
kg of Indian hemp on the morning of Wednesday 21 February 2018 at 14:00 UTC,
according to the Guinean Press Agency (AGP), the state news agency.[1]The
seizure was made on a Peugeot 505 estate taxi registered RC-9171-P RG that had
left Kindia prefecture for Gaoual, after members of the public alerted the
forces.[1]
The forces set up a roadblock at the foot of the Hérama classified forest, a
district of the Gaoual urban commune, and stopped the car there half an hour
later.[1]Three occupants of the car were detained and taken to the Gaoual
territorial gendarmerie company, where they were questioned by judicial police
officers on Thursday 22 February.[1]AGP named the three as the driver Thierno
Abdoulaye Barry, Abdoul Camara and Thierno Mounir Barry, alias Rougeau,
described as the owner of the cargo and known by that nickname to the kaniaka,
the people of Kindia.[1]
According to the first information gathered, the 1,400 kg cargo was bound for
the Koumbia sub-prefecture, described by AGP as a major transit and consumption
zone for drugs in Gaoual prefecture.[1]Guinée Quotidien published the same
dispatch the day before Guinee28, crediting AGP’s correspondent in the locality.[2]
Photos and video
Hessian-wrapped bales of seized material stacked on the floor of a room, in the photograph published with the AGP dispatch on the Gaoual seizure, under a site watermark; no caption or credit names the photographer or the room. Photo: Guinee28 / AGPPhoto details
No charges, prosecutor's referral or court outcome were reported; the three men were questioned and the case stage is recorded as investigation.
The 1,400 kg is given as a single figure by the state news agency AGP with no weighing detail or description of how the hemp was packed.
No street value estimate was published.
The two accessible accounts reproduce the same AGP dispatch, so this is a single official source rather than independent reporting; no original AGP page could be opened.
The article does not say what legal action followed the questioning, or whether the three were brought before a prosecutor.
The direction of travel is stated as Kindia to Gaoual with the cargo bound for Koumbia; the article does not say where the hemp was loaded.
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