Kerala: Cops apprehend five youths with 400 gm of MDMA

The Ernakulam Rural police apprehended as many as five youths with 400 grams of MDMA. The three accused were first nabbed with 634 mg of MDMA while they were transporting the drug in a car at Angamaly TB Junction.
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Kerala: The Ernakulam Rural police apprehended as many as five youths with 400 grams of MDMA. The three accused were first nabbed with 634 mg of MDMA while they were transporting the drug in a car at Angamaly TB Junction. The accused were held by a team headed by district police chief K Karthick.
During subsequent investigation, 400 gm of drug kept in a scooter was seized and two persons were arrested. The gang brought the MDMA from Bengaluru, The New Indian Express reported.
According to police, three members of the gang reached Coimbatore by bus from Bengaluru. Two of them returned to Kerala by car while the third person travelled in a bus.
One of the accused, who was coming on the bus, tried to escape on a scooter belonging to Azrath when he learnt that the other gang members had landed in police net. The police team chased the duo and arrested them from Aluva Kunnatheri area. Rural SP K Karthick said an investigation is on to trace the persons for whom the drug was brought.
Recently, the Anti-Narcotic Special Squad of Excise Department arrested a Chirayinkeezhu native youth who ordered 12 grams of MDMA from the US. The case was registered after the parcel containing MDMA arrived at Foreign Post Office (FPO) in Kochi.
The arrested person was identified as Saurav, of Sangeeth Bhavan, Chirayinkeezhu. According to Excise Assistant Commissioner B Tenymon, Customs officials who scan parcels arriving from abroad at FPO in Kochi gave information that led to the arrest.
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