Lae main market transit point for drug smuggling: Police

By JIMMY KALEBE
THE LAE Main Market is becoming a transit point for drug smuggling to West New Britain and Northern, a police commander says.
It was becoming an everyday thing, said the policing unit attaché at the Main Market police station and commander reservist Senior Sergeant Timothy Nadu said.
“We have made several breakthroughs, with suspects caught, charged and jailed while others, when knowing that we have confiscated their market produce containing drugs, just
vanished – never to be found,” he said.
Yesterday at around 4am, 20 kilos marijuana was found by market security guards concealed in a neatly sewn bag of kaukau.
“The owner of the bag when seeing the security guards revealing the contents in the bag of kaukau, vanished,” Nadu said.
“This thing has been going on since 2014.
“Many have come and gone undetected. It is very worrying, especially when we are trying our best to keep our market free of such illegal trade.” Nadu said it was the second time this year for such a major bust, but unfortunately between 2016 and this year, only five arrests had been made.