IPNEWS-Maryland County: The authoritative Independent Probe Newspaper has reliably gathered that Maryland County, Liberia Drugs Enforcement detachment Commander, Col. Joseph Tarjidine and several others are now arrested and undergoing investigation in connection of being in possession of spilled cocaine busted Thursday by security forces in the Ivory Coast.
According to sources within the DEA high command told IPNews that commander Col. Joseph Tarjidine l, was arrested in RiverGee County after he allegedly transported to Monrovia several spilled cocaine along the Maryland ,Sinoe enclaves.
IPNEWS reliably understand that the cocaine was gathered in a raid in the Philadelphia Community outside Maryland County Main Capital Harper City.
It may be recalled, Ivory Coast security Gendarmerie, on Thursday, February 25,2021, seized over one tonne of cocaine in a night operation in a northern district of the commercial capital Abidjan record over $47 million of Paraguayan origin.
Major drug hauls in Ivory Coast are rare and the latest find is more than double the size of the previous record seizure, when 411 kilograms of cocaine were retrieved from a boat in Ivorian waters last year.
The gendarmerie did not give further details about Wednesdayβs bust, but a police source said the cocaine originated in Paraguay and was worth 25 billion CFA francs ($46.7 million).
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the illegal narcotics trade but drug kingpins have responded by packing larger loads of cocaine into the fewer container ships and commercial airplanes in circulation, officials say.
In the last few years several large cocaine seizures have been made along the West African Atlantic Coast, a frequent stopping point for South American cocaine heading to Europe. About 40 tonnes pass through the region annually, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
In January, Gambian authorities seized nearly 3 tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador. About 9.5 tonnes were seized in the island archipelago of Cape Verde in 2019 – one of the biggest hauls ever.($1 = 535.5000 CFA francs)
