Cabo Verde’s Judicial Police announced the in-flagrante detention of five people in the municipality of Tarrafal in an operation against drug trafficking, including two Nigerians.[1] Those detained were two women and three men aged between 20 and 55, including two men of Nigerian nationality.[1] The detentions were carried out on Wednesday 28 July in Tarrafal de Santiago on suspicion of drug trafficking.[2] The arrests were made by the Assomada Criminal Investigation Unit on Santiago island.[3]

Officers acted on eleven search warrants to homes and commercial establishments, plus searches of vehicles and an agricultural area in Tarrafal.[1] The operation was supported by the Judicial Police’s Central Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Praia.[3] Officers seized drugs described as cannabis and cocaine, together with money, precision scales and other goods.[1]

The seizure included 136,806 Cape Verdean escudos, 50 dollars and 110 euros, two precision scales, unknown powder products and documents.[2] Those detained were taken to the Judicial Police delegation in Santa Catarina to await presentation to the judicial authorities for a first interrogation and coercive measures.[3]