The Somanya Magistrate Court has remanded a 24-year-old woman, Anas Laad into custody for selling tea laced with ‘wee’.
She was arrested together with seven other persons on January 30 but the rest were set free after police found nothing incriminating on them.
The Akuse District Police Commander, Superintendent Cletus Abadamlora, the police retrieved substances suspected to have been mixed with Indian hemp (weed) during the swoop in a hideout.
“We arrested some persons peddling these narcotics drugs and other things in Kpong area. So we were able to pick intelligence and then we swooped the area. We got about eight men including the female person in custody now and when we screened all of them, we didn’t get anything incriminating on the men but we got this tea laced with leaves suspected to be Indian hemp in the tea,” he said.
According to the Police Commader, she admitted selling the substances to the public when she was interrogated.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor of the case, Inspector Emmanuel Aryitey, prayed the court to remand the suspect to allow the police to conduct forensic laboratory examination within fourteen (14) days.
The court, presided over by His Lordship Derrick Oklu, though admitted he has no jurisdiction over the matter, remanded her into police custody till February 18, 2022.
CCF’s crime prevention advocacy
Crime Check Foundation (CCF) has introduced programmes including the latest ‘Stay Away From Trouble’ as part of its crime prevention advocacy project.
Through these programmes CCF cautions the general public against acts that could land them in trouble in a bid to curb crime.
The Foundation screens one-on-one interviews with prison inmates bringing to bear acts that landed them into prison and the difficulties they face in custody.
It has also paid the fines of many petty offenders for their release.
