Two arrested selling crack and cannabis by Tamanredjo schools
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.
🇸🇷 Tamansarie, Tamanredjo, Commewijne District · Suriname
Police arrestedsuspect J.R. at Tamansarie on 5 November 2026 while he was
selling drugs from his car.[1][2]Police had identified him after a tip that he
was offering drugs for sale from his car near two schools in Tamanredjo to drug
addicts and possibly schoolchildren.[1]After a targeted operation, officers
spotted and arrested him at Tamansarie at the moment he was selling drugs from
his car.[1]
Officers found a quantity of crack cocaine, marijuana, packaging material and a
precision scale in his car.[1]J.R. was arrested together with drug addict
K.B. and both were taken to the police station.[1]During his arraignment,
J.R. admitted selling the drugs found on him to various drug addicts in
Tamansarie, Richelieu and Tamanredjo.[1]
K.B. stated that he was a drug user and bought drugs from J.R.[1]Police
released K.B. after questioning while J.R. was detained, according to Police
Region East on 8 November.[1]
Case data
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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.
A Suriname police officer was arrested at the Burnside checkpoint in Coronie on 24 August 2026 after officers found two suitcases of suspected marijuana in his vehicle. Police held him in custody and sent the case to their internal investigation department.
