Motorcyclist held after suspected cannabis find in Cassis
Police motorcycle officers intercepted a motorcyclist on Cassis Road on 2 November 2026 after he allegedly failed to stop at Les Salines, seizing suspected cannabis. The rider tested positive for drugs and was handed to Bain-des-Dames police for investigation.
🇲🇺 Cassis Road, Les Salines, Port Louis · Mauritius
Motorcycle police chased a motorcyclist at Les Salines on Monday 2 November
after he allegedly refused to stop when ordered.[1][2]Officers intercepted the
rider on Cassis Road after pursuing him from Les Salines.[1]Officers seized a
substance suspected to be cannabis during the intervention.[1][2]The intercepted
rider was also given a drug screening test that came back positive.[1][2]Police
then handed the intercepted rider to the Bain-des-Dames police for the follow-up
investigation.[1][2]
The stop occurred during an island-wide programme of five days of road checks
carried out from 30 October to 3 November.[1][2]Police said officers checked
1,965 vehicles and the Traffic Branch recorded 912 offences, including 227 for
speeding.[1][2]The same operations detected 17 positive drink-driving cases and
one positive drug case.[1]Police also recorded 187 vignette and insurance
offences and 53 number-plate offences.[1]Officers logged 39 seat-belt cases,
29 mobile-phone cases, 23 tinted-window cases and 332 other road offences.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Le Mauricienlemauricien.comFRSécurité routière : 912 infractions relevées en cinq jours, dont 227 excès de vitesse et 17 tests d’alcoolémie positifs
Defimediadefimedia.infoFROpérations policières : 912 infractions routières relevées en cinq jours
Open questions the AI reported
No weight or description of the suspected cannabis was published, so no kilograms can be recorded.
The rider was not named and no age or residence was published.
The article says the rider was intercepted and handed to police for investigation without using the word arrested; one detention is recorded as arrested.
No charge, custody decision or court outcome was reported.
Only one accessible account of the event was found; a social-media snippet for the same Cassis interception could not be opened and is not used.
The Defimedia roundup gives no weight or description of the suspected cannabis, and neither account names the rider or reports a charge or court outcome.
A news.mu and TOP FM Mauritius post describes the intercepted rider as a 26-year-old living at Pont-Saint-Louis, Pailles, given a piece of about 425 g earlier the same evening, but their pages did not open and that account is not used.
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ADSU officers arrested two young men aged 20 and 21 in Bois-des-Amourettes with 30.88 grams of cannabis in two sachets. A 15-year-old with them fled, and later home searches found nothing further.
ADSU officers arrested a 25-year-old electrician along Rue Madras at Camp-Levieux and found 44 cellophane wrappings of cannabis on him. Police also seized Rs 6,650 suspected to be drug-sale proceeds, and the suspect was placed in detention as the investigation continued.
ADSU officers searched Marie Noemy Chedy's home at Colville Deverelle, Cité La Cure, seizing 25.33 g of cannabis and Rs 260,875 in suspected drug proceeds. The 30-year-old was placed in police detention on a provisional drug-trafficking charge.
