From Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Wenchi
The Wenchi police have arrested a 55-year-old man, Abraham Kwartey Quartey, alias “Rasta”, 55, and Adwoa Vuoruh, 21 a nursing mother of a 11-month-old baby, for possessing narcotic drugs without authority.
According to the Wenchi District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Prince Sam Kwame Osae, while Rasta was caught red-handed holding a parcel of suspected narcotics drugs, a search in the room of Adwoa revealed a quantity of parcels suspected to be cannabis hidden under her husband’s bed.
Mr Osae said the arrest of the two followed a tip-off that Rasta and one Kwaku Atta, now at large, were dealing in the forbidden drugs at Badu, near Wenchi. When the police went in to look for Atta, he was nowhere to be found but rather came across the wife in the house.
He alleged that in the first instance when Rasta was interrogated by the police, he denied knowledge of dealing in drugs.
However, according to the police, when the police went in again to Rasta’s place he was caught holding a parcel of the suspected narcotic drugs.
Meanwhile, he said the two had been put before the Wenchi Magistrate’s Court presided over by Mr Essel Walker and remanded into police custody pending further investigations.
In a brief interview with Adwoa, she told The Mirror that she was an apprentice hairdresser at the Badu market and that the husband was a farmer, and denied knowledge of the suspected narcotics drugs.
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