The suspicions of the police officers of the Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit (Adsu) of the Eastern Division proved to be well founded. A raid carried out this Wednesday morning, February 8, at the home of Mahen Gorrochurn, a 48-year-old cake merchant in Glen Park, Vacoas, led to the discovery of 2.1 kilos of cannabis with an estimated street value of Rs 2,520,000, a transparent plastic bag containing 9007 cannabis seeds, an electronic scale, and one hundred transparent resealable plastic bags. A sum of Rs 20,000 that Adsu suspects to come from the sale of this drug was also seized.
It is on the basis of information obtained to the effect that Mahen Gorrochurn is engaged in an illicit traffic that a surveillance was mounted by the men of the inspector Ramchurn. On Wednesday, February 8, around 9:05 a.m., a search was conducted in his house and yard. This exercise proved to be successful. During this search these policemen found in the living room of his house, 2.1 kilos of cannabis, a transparent resealable plastic containing 9007 cannabis seeds, an electronic scale with cannabis particles on it, one hundred transparent resealable plastic bags, These policemen also seized on a table in the living room a sum of Rs 20,000 in different denominations. This money is suspected to come from the sale of this drug.
Mahen Gorrochurn was arrested on a provisional charge of drug trafficking with aggravating circumstances. He was brought before the court of Curepipe this Thursday morning, February 9. He was subsequently kept in a police cell.
