{"id":83999,"date":"2026-04-21T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/police-arrest-two-men-over-suspected-drug-trafficking-in-st-julians\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:45:00","slug":"police-arrest-two-men-over-suspected-drug-trafficking-in-st-julians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/police-arrest-two-men-over-suspected-drug-trafficking-in-st-julians\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest two men over suspected drug trafficking in St Julian\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest two men over suspected drug trafficking in St Julian\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Two men have been arrested in St Julian&#8217;s after police allegedly found them in possession of cocaine, heroin and cannabis during a patrol.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement on Tuesday said that police surveillance in the area of St Julian&#8217;s led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man from &#379;urrieq and a 23-year-old man from Senglea, who were found in possession of various types of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>During patrols carried out earlier on Tuesday, police officers noticed the men acting suspiciously while inside a Toyota Vitz.<\/p>\n<p>They were stopped in Triq Portomaso, where a search was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Substances suspected to be cocaine, heroin and cannabis were found, along with an amount of cash and several mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>The men are currently being held at the police lock-up in Floriana, while investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Malta Police Force Communications Office<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-04-21\/local-news\/Police-arrest-two-men-over-suspected-drug-trafficking-in-St-Julian-s-6736288998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police arrest two men over suspected drug trafficking in St Julian\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest two men over suspected drug trafficking in St Julian\u2019s Two men have been arrested in St Julian&#8217;s after police allegedly found them in possession of cocaine, heroin and cannabis during a patrol. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-83999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}