Police seized “enough heroine for 21.839 individual doses”
Two suspected drug dealers were arrested by PSP police in Lagos on Tuesday (July 16).
The arrests, which followed an investigation that had been ongoing for “around half a year”, are expected to have a “strong impact on the reduction of situations of drug trafficking in the town of Lagos,” the Faro PSP district command said in a statement to the press.
The suspects are also believed to have dealt drugs in neighbouring boroughs and to have supplied other dealers in the area, aside from selling the drugs directly to consumers themselves, the statement adds.
The investigation led to a police operation this week which involved “several house searches and non-house searches”, resulting in the confiscation of huge quantities of drugs, including “enough heroine for 21.839 individual doses and enough cocaine for 493 individual doses,” as well as a car and €1,100 in cash and other items related to their illegal activity.
The two suspects, aged 58 and 35, have already appeared before a judge, with one being remanded in custody and the other ordered to report weekly to police.
