25 kg ganja, 40 MDMA tablets seized in city during last week raids

The city police have had a busy week conducting raids across the city. They have seized 25 kg of ganja and about 42 MDMA tablets last week, as part of their ‘Drive against Drugs’ campaign.

As many as 19 persons, including those who smuggled ganja from other states, and peddlers have been arrested in a week, police said. Cash worth over Rs 1 lakh was seized from the offenders and their vehicles have also been seized.

Apart from this, a special drive to prevent the sale of banned oral tobacco products was held on Thursday and over 10 kg of gutkha products were seized.

Noticeably, a special team of MKB Nagar police arrested a serial offender, N Rama (49) on June 11, based on a tip-off that she was in possession of a large stash of ganja. Police secured 16 kg of ganja from her residence in BV colony, Vyasarpadi. Police said that Rama has 3 pending cases against her in Sembium police station.

JJ Nagar police team, on June 13, had arrested Vincent, who, along with a gang, was caught selling ganja near Mogappair Industrial Estate. While three of his accomplices managed to flee, police arrested Vincent and secured 4 kg of ganja from him.

Apart from the ganja seizure, police also seized MDMA (Methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine) tablets, commonly known as ecstasy from youths.

Fishing harbour police arrested J Stephen (21) of Ennore and D Muthu (22) of Kasimedu for selling ecstasy tablets near Nagooran Thottam and seized 21 tablets from them.

New Washermanpet police arrested teenagers, A Srinivasan (19) and M Raghul (19) on Thursday and recovered 21 tablets from them.

The police said they will be conducting more raids in the coming weeks.