A 14 year old student, living in Kennedy, Quatre-Bornais who was acting as a transporter to make a delivery of 72.8 grams of heroin, worth Rs 1,092,000 was arrested on the Plaine-Lauzun highway on the morning of Sunday January 1, 2023. The young suspect, who does not have a driver’s license, was riding a Pulsar motorcycle with no insurance sticker or National Transport Authority (NTA) declaration. There was no license plate attached to the front of the two-wheeled vehicle. After being questioned at the headquarters of the Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit (Adsu) at the Central Barracks, he gave his statement in the presence of one of his relatives. Benefiting from the Children’s Act 2020 favor, he was allowed to return home.
A team of the Traffic Enforcement Squad (TES) of the Traffic Branch solved this drug trafficking case on the 1st day of the year 2023. Having had information that a drug parcel after having been transited through Roche-Bois was going to be delivered to cité Kennedy, Quatre-Bornes by a motorcyclist. So two police sergeants and three policemen on motorcycle patrol set up a surveillance on the highway from Roche-Bois to Plaine-Lauzun that day. At 8:20 a.m. the motorcycle in question, whose license plate numbers they had, was spotted, and stopped in Plaine-Lauzun by two TES police officers.
The driver, who is only 14 years old, had to declare his identity. This resident of cité Kennedy, Quatre-Bornes attends a private college in the high Plaines-Wilhems. The driver was informed that he was going to be ticketed for driving without his license or a copy of it, no insurance sticker, no NTA declaration and no number plate on the front.
The suspicious look of this driver must have aroused the suspicions of these police officers concerning a drug transport. A discreet search on his person allowed to drug in a piece of paper of black color three transparent plastics. They contained respectively thirteen small parcels, eleven small parcels and fifteen small parcels which are all stuck with adhesive tape.
The young motorcyclist without a license was taken to the Adsu headquarters. The drug was weighed and the indicative gross weight was 72.8 grams. An investigation was opened to trace the source of the drug and its destination. Adsu notes that minors are increasingly used to traffic drugs.
Investigators are awaiting a decision from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the next steps in this case. This is after the DPP’s office has reviewed the report from the Probation Office regarding this youth.
