Two men sent to court in Senegal after 19 kg of cannabis found in a taxi
Police in Saint-Louis stopped a taxi before dawn on 4 October 2026 and found 19 kilograms of cannabis in 19 blocks. Two men were taken before the prosecutor on 6 October and the prosecutor asked for a judicial investigation.
Police in the Pikine district of Saint-Louis stopped a yellow and black urban taxi at
about 2 am on 4 October 2026 and found 19 blocks of cannabis, one kilogram each, according
to the police account reported by Seneweb.[1][2]Officers had watched the area around the
Daral livestock market after an anonymous tip that cannabis was being sold there.[1][2]
The two men in the taxi were O. Ndiaye, 48, who said he was a trader, and M. Ndiaye, 43,
a taxi driver; both lived in Pikine.[1][2]O. Ndiaye admitted owning the drug, which he
said he had bought in Mpal from a man identified as C.S. for 500,000 CFA francs.[1][2]
The men were held in police custody and taken before the prosecutor at the Saint-Louis
court on 6 October, on charges of criminal association and offering and supplying Indian
hemp.[1][2]The prosecutor asked for a judicial investigation, and the men were returned
to custody pending an appearance before an investigating judge, who was to decide whether
to indict them.[1][2]
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The two suspects handcuffed at the police station in Saint-LouisPhoto details
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