Four held with seven loads of hashish in Mogadishu's Gubadley district
Security forces arrested four suspects with seven loads of hashish and firearms in Mogadishu's Gubadley district on 30 December 2024. The drugs were said to be bound for secret outlets across the city.
Security forces in Mogadishu arrested four suspects after finding them with loads of
hashish in the capital’s Gubadley district.[1]The Somali Police Force said the
suspects were arrested in possession of seven truckloads of hashish, which they
intended to distribute to various secret outlets in the city to be sold.[1]The
suspects were also in possession of firearms.[1]
A second account of the same operation says four men were arrested during a targeted
security operation in Gubadleey on Monday 30 December 2024, with a substantial
quantity of hashish and an AK47 rifle seized from one of the suspects.[2]The
origin of the drugs was not established.[1]
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Municipal police in Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, detained three people on calle Tabachines during the Mineral Seguro operation and seized eight bags of suspected marijuana weighing 7.6 grams. They also reported 21 grams of cristal (crystal methamphetamine) and a homemade firearm, and handed the three detainees to the public prosecutor.
After Al-Shabaab seized the port city of Kismayo, three local men were arrested for possession of hashish. Their supply was burned and they were publicly flogged by the militants.
Somalia's transitional government publicly burned about 1,000 kg of seized drugs, mostly cannabis, in front of Mogadishu's police academy, after months of anti-narcotics operations in which police said 280 people were detained.
Mogadishu police said they had seized over 400 kg of cannabis across the city in two weeks and arrested about a dozen people, in anti-crime operations targeting trafficking in several districts.
