A raid by police officers of the Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit (Adsu) of Port-Mathurin at the home of Marie Josiane Jolicoeur, also known as Yanne, 59 years old in Cascade Jean Louis, on Wednesday morning led to the discovery of one hundred and sixteen cannabis plants. Those which measure between ten to one meter five centimeters with a market value of Rs 348 000.
It is on the basis of certain information to the effect that this woman was engaged in drug trafficking that the men of the sergeant Perrine mounted a surveillance. They then arrived at the woman’s home around 7 am on Wednesday January 19. The information turned out to be true. More than one hundred cannabis plants were cultivated in the yard of this fifty-year-old woman.
On the other hand this time in Mauritius, more precisely in Flat Beelta, route Saint-Jean, Quatre-Bornes, the men of Adsu of the division the west led by the sergeant Lactive discovered twenty-five plants of cannabis that was cultivated by Jugasing Seeruthun, a man of 47 years. These plants measure between sixty-five and one meter eighty centimeters. This raid was carried out at 7 o’clock in the morning of Wednesday January 19. The value of these seized plants is Rs 75 000.
Jugasing Seeruthun has already been brought before the court of Rose-Hill during the day of Wednesday, January 19. He is facing a provisional charge of drug trafficking. He was taken to a cell in the central prison of Beau-Bassin.
