21-year-old girl, dispatch riders arrested for drug trafficking in Delta

By Efe Onodjae

The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old woman, identified arsenic Queen Chukwu, alongside immoderate dispatch riders, for allegedly utilizing courier services to transport and merchantability cannabis successful the state.

Parading the suspects, successful a video shared connected X (formerly Twitter) the Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police, SP Dafe Bright, said operatives acting connected credible quality uncovered the syndicate’s modus operandi.

According to him, the pistillate fishy lodged successful a edifice for months wherever she sold drugs to customers, portion utilizing dispatch riders to ferry the substances nether the guise of nutrient delivery.

“This is supposedly a dispatch motorcycle. When we got credible intelligence, we learnt that this dispatch rider, alternatively of dispatching what they are legally expected to dispatch, had precocious criminally into dispatching cannabis. Dispatch riders are usually fixed immoderate information and not searched, truthful they took vantage of that. As you tin see, the motorcycle has a sticker claiming nutrient delivery, but alternatively they were dispatching transgression elements similar cannabis,”

One of the suspects, seen successful the Video, Kingsley Eze, an indigene of Ebonyi State, confessed: “I was caught with cannabis. I helped a lawsuit to bargain it. I was arrested aft being searched.”

Another suspect, Ramadan, besides admitted: “I was fixed a fume to supply. I got the fume from this woman to spell and supply. She told maine erstwhile I proviso it, the receiver would springiness maine money.”

Speaking during interrogation, Queen Chukwu confessed: “Yes, I was the 1 that gave him the fume to supply. This is cannabis worthy astir N500,000 due to the fact that it is fractional a bag. I enactment successful a edifice and my customers travel to maine to get them. I americium not blessed doing this business. I americium from Enugu State.”

SP Bright warned that the bid volition not tolerate transgression innovations disguised arsenic morganatic businesses. “In Delta State, you can’t outsmart the constabulary command,” helium declared.

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