In the second of two high profile drug busts in Ghana recently, 68 large cartons of cocaine were seized on the 21st of May, after being intercepted in a blue-black Mercedes Benz truck on its way westward from Prampram beach to the capital Accra.
Police had received a tip-off that unidentified items had been loaded onto the bus on a beach - possibly from dinghies sent from a ship offshore - and set up a roadblock. Just in time it seems. Soon after, the bus approached, slowed as if to stop and then sped away. The driver, who was apprehended shortly after, claimed he was carrying fish. A search of the truck revealed a few fish but he wasn’t able to explain away the presence of the cartons of cocaine. A car containing $10,000 was found nearby, abandoned.
After some questioning the driver took police to his residence, which was surrounded by electric fences. The police seemingly had to call the installer of the suspect’s security system to cut the electrical connection. By the time they got inside, drugs hidden in two cellars - accessible beneath two freestanding wardrobes - had been evacuated by his men, who had probably been notified by mobile phone during his botched escape from police. Another Mercedes Benz bus, this one found on his property, was also impounded.