THIRTEEN persons were on Thursday arrested by the police in a dawn swoop at Bethel, a suburb of Sunyani, for allegedly possessing dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
Four of them, described as key suspects, were named as Kwadwo Moaba, Lucy Amisangah, Francis Eklu and Kwabena Tawiah. The names of the nine others are, however, being withheld.
Moaba, unemployed, who was first arrested with a quantity of the dried leaves, named Lucy as his source of supply and led the police to her house at Sunyani Zongo, where a search by the police uncovered eight bags of the dried substances in a corridor.
A press release signed by Chief Inspector Yaw Nketia-Yeboah, the Regional Police Public Affairs Officer, said police personnel drawn from Berekum, Sunyani and Wenchi Divisions who were led by the Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Charles Domanban, successfully undertook the swoop.
The release said the Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Seth Charles Oteng, commended them for the success of the assignment which did not result in any injury and assured the general public that the exercise would be sustained in the region to apprehend criminals.
It said the commander also appealed to the public to volunteer information about suspected criminals to the police and gave the assurance that the police would not expose those informants.
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