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3 suspects including Dutch national picked up by police over suspected cocaine seized in Tema
on August 5, 2026, that some young men were loading parcels of a white substance concealed in sacks of gari into a 40-foot container at a warehouse within the Tema Port enclave.
A Dutch national and two other suspects have been picked by the police as key suspects in the 866 parcels of a white powdered substance suspected to be cocaine.
The Tema Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Eric Asamoah Asiedu, at a press briefing on Thursday (August 6, 2026), a separate narcotics operation on the same day, als resulted in the arrest of another suspect.
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