13.8 tonnes of cannabis seized as Kenitra network traced to Aït Melloul
Moroccan police seized 4.9 tonnes of cannabis in a warehouse in the Aït Melloul industrial zone on 28 March 2021, after dismantling a trafficking network in Kenitra days earlier with 8.9 tonnes. Four suspects were arrested in the Kenitra raids on information from the DGST.
The judicial police of Kenitra seized nearly nine tons of cannabis on Thursday 25 March 2021, foiling an international drug trafficking operation.[1]Acting on information from the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), officers seized 2.1 tons of cannabis resin in 67 bundles from a vehicle at Ouled Mlik, 12 km from Kenitra, and arrested four people.[1]Inquiries the same afternoon led to another 6.9 tons of chira in two metal crates at a container workshop in Haddada, about 6 km from Kenitra.[1]
Investigations into that network then led police to Aït Melloul, near Agadir, where they seized 4.9 tons of cannabis on Sunday 28 March, bringing the total to 13.8 tons.[2]The haul was hidden in the metal tanks of crane trucks parked in a warehouse in the Aït Melloul industrial zone, according to a national police statement.[2]
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