PANAJI
The Crime Branch (CB) sleuths arrested a Nigerian national for allegedly possessing party drugs, during a raid in the northern coastal belt late on Tuesday night.
Information shared by CB SP Nidhin Valsan states that the 38-year-old Nigerian, Eduka Chiuba Obiekwe -- involved in a previous case of drug peddling in 2014 -- was caught red-handed in possession of 32 tablets suspected to be Ecstasy.
"The oval-shaped-suspected Ecstasy pills, weighing 15.40 gms were wrapped in a transparent polythene bag and concealed in a blue coloured two wheeler having Goa registration," the officer informed.
The alleged peddler was subsequently arrested and the pills, worth Rs 1.12 lakh approx were seized for further investigation. The accused has been temporarily residing in Parra, where the Nigerians are found in huge numbers, and he hired the scooter bearing registration number GA-03-AQ-6039, which is now in the custody of the police.
Obiekwe was earlier arrested in another case of drug peddling in Anjuna, by the local police in 2014. The CB are also probing the accused's involvement in other or similar crimes at other police stations in Goa and other states.
