Police have arrested a local man for possession of narcotics in Hulhumale’.
Police said that the 41-year-old was arrested yesterday around 2:56 in Hulhumale’ after police officers out on a routine patrol noticed suspicious behavior from the suspect.
Police said the officers had stopped the suspect and searched his persons before making the arrest for possession of narcotics.
It added that the man was arrested after police found a suspicious substance in packets bound with rubber on his persons.
The Police Investigation Department is now looking into the case.
The Maldives Police Services had been vigilantly in its fight against narcotics.
Earlier this month, the law enforcement agency arrested a 58-year-old local man from a resort in the Maldives for the possession of narcotics. Police had seized 15 packets of suspicious substances from the man.
