Police seize 21 kg of cannabis from a Maputo truck and arrest five in Tete
Mozambique's police detained five people in Tete after a dog unit found 21 kg of cannabis hidden in a long-distance truck from Maputo. The drug was packed in 33 parcels among beauty products and animal feed, and a sixth suspect fled.
Police in Tete detained five people after finding 21 kg of cannabis in a
long-distance truck from Maputo, Miramar reported.[1]A dog unit inspecting the
vehicle found the drug in 33 parcels hidden among beauty products and animal feed.[2]Rádio Voz Coop put the weight at 21.5 kg.[2]
The five included the truck’s driver and his assistant, a motorcycle taxi operator
and two people waiting in a light vehicle to collect part of the order.[1][2]The driver and his assistant denied knowing about the drug, saying the load was
made up of many boxes.[2]The driver of the light vehicle said he had come only
to collect beauty products and animal feed.[2]
A sixth suspect, a passenger of the motorcycle taxi operator and the suspected
owner of one of the parcels containing the drug, escaped during the operation.[2]Police said they were still looking for him.[1][2]
Police in Govuro district, Inhambane, detained a 38-year-old transporter and seized 240 kg of cannabis packed in seven suitcases at the Save checkpoint. The PRM said the load came from South Africa and was headed for Manica province.
Maputo police detained a man with 120 bundles of suruma weighing about 100 kg, brought from South Africa in a passenger vehicle and intercepted at the Junta Bus Terminal as he tried to dispatch the load to Tete. Terminal staff raised the alarm after the suspect left before completing shipment.
SERNIC seized about 200 kg of cannabis sativa, known as suruma, hidden in calamidade clothing bales in a minibus at the Mboza checkpoint in Moatize, Tete, bound for Angonia. The driver and conductor were detained, while SERNIC said the cannabis came from Eswatini and could have yielded almost six million meticais.
Sernic officers raided a house in Sampene, Quelimane on 18 March 2021 and seized 180 kg of cannabis alongside large amounts of heroin and morphine, detaining people including the Tanzanian tenant. Sernic said the drugs came from Tanzania and Quelimane was used as a reception and distribution point for onward movement to Maputo and South Africa.
