{"id":84403,"date":"2026-05-20T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/two-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-in-gaxaq\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:47:00","slug":"two-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-in-gaxaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/two-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-in-gaxaq\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested in connection with drug trafficking in G&#295;axaq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men arrested in connection with drug trafficking in G&#295;axaq<\/p>\n<p>Two men were arrested on Tuesday afternoon in connection with drug trafficking after police allegedly found cannabis, cocaine and heroin during surveillance operations in G&#295;axaq.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that at around 3.45pm, officers conducting surveillance in Triq id-Dejl noticed two men near a playground who raised suspicions.<\/p>\n<p>Following searches carried out on the men and the vehicle they were using, police allegedly found 70 sachets containing a substance suspected to be cannabis, 24 packets containing a substance suspected to be cocaine, and 16 packets containing a substance suspected to be heroin.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, aged 34 and 20, residing in &#294;amrun and Qormi respectively, were arrested and were arraigned in court on Wednesday at around noon before Magistrate Astrid May Grima.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Malta Police Force Communications Office.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-05-20\/local-news\/Two-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-in-Ghaxaq-6736289869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two men arrested in connection with drug trafficking in G&#295;axaq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men arrested in connection with drug trafficking in G&#295;axaq Two men were arrested on Tuesday afternoon in connection with drug trafficking after police allegedly found cannabis, cocaine and heroin during surveillance operations in G&#295;axaq&#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-84403","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\/84403"}],"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=84403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}