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Driver paid $40, 000 to transport 380 slabs of
substance suspected to be cocaine
Cape Coast, June 29, Ghanadot/GNA- Officials of the Cape
Coast Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), on Sunday
intercepted 380 parcels of substance suspected to be cocaine
concealed 19 travelling bags at Ataabadze-Junction near
Elmina in the Central region.
The regional Police Commander DOCP Rose-Bio-Atinga, who
briefed the media at Cape Coast said, following orders from
the police head office to embark on an aggressive vehicles
check for items such as arms and drugs, especially on
private vehicles, the regional MTTU began the exercise on
Sunday.
She said the officials led by the unit Deputy Commander, ASP
Fredrick Kojo Asare Mensah, were on duty at Ataabadze
-Junction about 0800 hours when they intercepted a Toyota
vehicle with registration number GR1204 Y with three people
on board, heading towards Accra.
She said when the vehicle was searched 19 travelling bags
loaded with substances suspected to be cocaine were
concealed in the boot of the vehicle.
DOCP Bio-Atinga said whiles they were conducting the search,
two of the suspects, known only as Chiko and Michael escaped
into a nearby bush, whiles the driver Samuel Mills-Robinson,
49, was arrested.
She said Mills-Robinson offered the police 5,000 dollars for
his release, but they refused the offer and took him to the
regional police head office.
Mills- Robinson told the police that he was hired by some
Nigerians to convey the substance from Bogoso to Accra for a
fee of 40,000 dollars.
The regional Commander said the case was still under
investigations and that everything would done to get the
other two suspects arrested, and that, the substance would
be send to the forensic laboratory for a test.
DOCP Bio-Atinga called on the public to support the police
by giving them the relevant information to enable them to do
their work effectively.
The Central regional Minister, Nana Ato Arthur, who went to
the regional police head office upon hearing of the arrest,
commended the police for the good work done and said he had
realized that the Cape Coast MTTU lacked transport and
promised to help address the situation.
GNA
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