{"id":310615,"date":"2011-03-15T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T10:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/ghanas-escobar-grabbed\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T10:36:33","slug":"ghanas-escobar-grabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/ghanas-escobar-grabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Escobar Grabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>A 62-year old man, Louis Osei Manu, also known as Joe Louis, has been arrested at Avenor by officers from the Narcotics Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Accra for allegedly trading in narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>The man has allegedly been in the trade for over 20 years now and has since been on the police wanted list.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Director General, CID, ACP Redeemer Vincent Dedjoe, said Joe Louis was a notorious drug dealer who managed to obtain bail in 1996 when he appeared before an Accra court for a similar offence.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday March, 11, 2011 police had information that Joe Louis had just received some cannabis sativa (wee) consignment which had just been off-loaded into a store room in his residence for onward distribution to retailers in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>At about 6:30pm, officials from CID Narcotics Unit mounted surveillance in the area and succeeded in capturing Joe Louis at his Avenor residence.<\/p>\n<p>According to ACP Dedjoe, suspect Joe Louis led police into a store room where a search led to the discovery of some 138 parcels wrapped in cement paper, 16 maxi sacks and 3 half fertilizer bag sizes and 8 parcels wrapped with cello tape, all full of dried leaves suspected to be high quality cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Several empty polythene bags and jute sacks, whose content is suspected to have been sold out, were also retrieved and are being kept as exhibits at the CID Headquarters. The dried leaves would be handed over to the Standards Board for testing.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect Joe Louis is expected to be arraigned soon while investigations into the matter continue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_532-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A 62-year old man, Louis Osei Manu, also known as Joe Louis, has been arrested at Avenor by officers from the Narcotics Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Accra for allegedly trading in narcotics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana&#039;s Escobar Grabbed - 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