Police arrest couple cultivating marijuana in garden

A MAN and his wife were arrested by Central police officers and charged with cultivating marijuana.
Central police commander Chief Insp Tapp Opai said the police were tipped off that there were people cultivating marijuana along the Brown River village outside Port Moresby.
He said the couple and others had been involved in the illegal activity for years.
“I organised my policemen to search that location. A team from the support unit conducted the raid this morning (yesterday) and uprooted 266 marijuana plants.
“They arrested the man and his wife while they were harvesting the marijuana plant.”
The wife was carrying a bilum full of what police believed to be cannabis.
Opai said others who were with the couple fled when police arrived. One was carrying a gun.
Opai urged people to grow food crops instead of marijuana which would only lead them to trouble with the law.
He said the couple if found guilty by the court would end up in jail, affecting their children who would have no parents to look after them.