23 blocks of cannabis seized from motorbike near Kaolack
Kaolack's regional narcotics brigade seized 23 blocks of cannabis from a Jakarta-type motorcycle on an unpaved road near Dramé Escale on 9 March 2026. Officers also recovered the motorcycle and a mobile phone; police described the seizure as major and linked it to transborder organised crime.
Officers of the Brigade régionale des stupéfiants (BRS), the regional narcotics
brigade in Kaolack in central Senegal, seized cannabis being carried on a
Jakarta-type motorcycle on 9 March 2026 under an operation announced in a
Senegalese police statement dated 10 March 2026.[1]The brigade’s surveillance
operation identified the Jakarta-type motorcycle as it transported the two
suspect parcels.[1]Officers recovered the motorcycle and a mobile telephone
from the traffickers during the intervention.[1]The intervention took place
on the unpaved road linking the localities of Thioyène Hamady Mala and Dramé in
the Dramé Escale zone.[1]
Officers seized 23 blocks of chanvre indien, the French term for Indian hemp or
cannabis, packed as parcels of 8 and 15 sub-blocks.[1]Police described the
seizure as a major seizure in its announcement.[1]
Police said the operation fell within the continuing fight against organised
transborder criminality.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Mail or parcel
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Ouestaf.comouestaf.comFRSénégal : la police annonce une « saisie majeure » de chanvre indien à Kaolack - Ouestaf.com
Open questions the AI reported
No weight was published, only 23 blocks in parcels of 8 and 15 sub-blocks, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The report says a motorcycle and phone were recovered from traffickers but gives no number of suspects, arrests or charges.
No court outcome or further legal steps were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French and English.
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