Drug smuggling network dismantled in Algiers

Algerian judicial police dismantled a national network of cannabis smuggling and arrested 11 suspects including a woman in the capital Algiers, police senior officer said Sunday.

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• “One of the arrested smugglers coordinated with a Moroccan supplying network from the border twon of Meghnia (west of Algiers),” Kamel Nadjem, deputy chief of counterdrug smuggling brigade told a press conference.
• “This network were operating in the Algerian-Moroccan borders and smuggling drugs to Algiers, Bejaia and Batna provinces (east of Algiers),” he added.
• Security forces had been keeping watch on the suspects for three days and caught two of them at home where they found 200 g of drugs and a sum of money.
• The two smugglers told investigators about the whereabouts of a wholesaler, 39, who had 1 kg of drugs. Two of his partners including a woman were then arrested after policemen found 700 g and 600 g of drugs at their possession in two separated security operation.
• Earlier, security forces arrested a drug smuggler next to a high school in the affluent area of El Mouradia in Algiers. He had 20 g of cocaine he were going to give them to pupils.