Four alleged cannabis dealers arrested in Mossendjo
Police in Mossendjo, Niari, arrested four suspected cannabis dealers and placed them in custody over alleged possession and use of cannabis. The four, aged 17 to 41, were brought before the Mossendjo prosecutor on Monday 26 February 2018.
Police in the town of Mossendjo in the Niari department in southern
Congo-Brazzaville arrested four alleged cannabis dealers on Saturday 24 February
2018.[1]The four arrested were Bernadin Moukassa Moupouma, who was 22 years
old, Juison Mounahoumou, who was 21, Adam Santos Veldy, who was 17, and Danila
Moussounda-Bouanga, who was 41.[1]Officers placed all four in police custody
after arresting them.[1]The report described them as presumed dealers held in
an investigation concerning alleged possession and use of cannabis.[1]
The arrests were carried out by the police of the town of Mossendjo.[1]The
case concerned chanvre indien, the French term for cannabis, and was treated as
a possession and consumption matter.[1]Mossendjo is in Niari in the south of
the country.[1]
After their period in custody, the four were brought before the Mossendjo
prosecutor on Monday 26 February 2018.[1]That appearance before the parquet
was the latest procedural step reported in the case.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No cannabis quantity, weight, plant count or value was published, so no kilograms or other seizure figures can be recorded.
The article published on Monday 26 February 2018 says the arrests happened on Saturday and the presentation happened on Monday; Saturday is taken as 24 February 2018.
No court outcome beyond presentation before the prosecutor was reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French, so no second account confirms the arrests.
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