French resident held at Paramaribo airport with 25 kg of hashish
Customs investigators arrested a 38-year-old woman living in France at Johan Adolf Pengel airport on 18 January 2024 after finding more than 25 kg of hashish in her checked suitcase on arrival from the Netherlands. She was handed to the Narcotics Brigade and remanded in custody for investigation.
🇸🇷 Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, Zanderij · Suriname
Customs investigators arrested a 38-year-old woman on Thursday evening 18
January 2024 as she arrived at Johan Adolf Pengel airport on a KLM flight from
the Netherlands.[1][2][3]The woman, who lives in France, was stopped by the
Douanerecherche at Zanderij with a suitcase stuffed with hashish.[1][2][3]A
thorough search of her checked baggage uncovered more than 25 kg of hashish,
which officers seized on the spot.[1][2][3]
After the discovery the passenger was handed over to the Narcotica Brigade,
which took up the investigation.[1][2][3]Following consultation with the
Public Prosecution Service she was remanded in custody, the police confirmed.[1][2][3]
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Police arrested two people at Tamansarie on 5 November 2026 after a tip that a dealer was selling drugs from his car near two schools in Tamanredjo. Officers found crack cocaine and marijuana plus packaging material and a precision scale in the car; the suspected seller was detained while the drug user arrested with him was released.
A Surinamese police unit checked drug sales points in Albina and Moengo in Marowijne district on 4 November 2026, firing warning shots in Albina when a suspect ran off into a thicket. In Moengo police held a man known by the initials P.R. with an unspecified amount of hashish, which he said was for his own use, and kept him in pre-trial custody.
Suriname's Narcotica Brigade arrested a 53-year-old man at an address on the Bealaan in Paramaribo on 3 November 2026 after he tried and failed to flush 56 grams of marijuana down the toilet. Police held him in verzekering, Suriname's pre-trial custody, after consulting prosecutors.
Police in eastern Suriname arrested 37-year-old civil servant O.S. in Mariënburg on 31 October 2026 with 72 grams of hashish. He said it was for personal use, but he is also accused of selling drugs to young people and was placed in pretrial detention.
