Police have arrested two individuals from a house in Male’ for possession of narcotics drugs.

Police said that it had raided the residence in a joint operation between the Police Intelligence Unit and the Drug Enforcement Department.

It said that the operation was conducted last Tuesday upon receiving a tip regarding possession of narcotics drugs in the raided house.

Police said a 27-year-old local man and a 30-year-old local woman were busted with huge amounts of narcotics drugs.

It said that the raid conducted under a court order uncovered more than 80 packets containing drug-like substances and more than 800 pills of controlled drugs.

Police said the investigation was underway.