Tangier Police Bust Drug Ring: Cannabis Hidden in Export-Bound Wooden Planks

In a statement, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) said that the research and investigations carried out as part of this case made it possible to catch in flagrante delicto the owner of a carpentry workshop located in the "Bni Ouassine" district on the outskirts of Tangier. With two of his accomplices, they were in the process of concealing and storing a large quantity of cannabis resin in wooden planks intended for export from Morocco.

Their modus operandi consists of emptying the planks of their contents and concealing the drugs in them, but taking care to cover them with chemical products in order to deceive the vigilance of the cynological police. The operations to extract the drugs from the planks are ongoing, but the quantity already found is estimated at 2.1 tons of cannabis resin.

The three accused are currently the subject of an investigation that will allow the police to identify any accomplices and all the national and international ramifications of this criminal network, concludes the DGSN.