{"id":84755,"date":"2026-06-14T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/17-year-old-arrested-over-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:07:00","slug":"17-year-old-arrested-over-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/17-year-old-arrested-over-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old arrested over drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17-year-old arrested over drug trafficking<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old youth was arrested on Saturday afternoon after being caught selling drugs, police said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the teenager, who is from Msida, was arrested in G&#295;axaq after being observed meeting with different people, potentially to sell drugs.<\/p>\n<p>After some time under surveillance, the youth was arrested and a search resulted in 53 packets of cocaine, 11 packets of heroin, and three packets of synthetic cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Several mobile phones, cash, and other items related to drug trafficking were also elevated, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager is being held at the police&rsquo;s lock-up in Floriana and was set to be charged on Sunday morning before Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-06-14\/local-news\/17-year-old-arrested-over-drug-trafficking-6736290501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17-year-old arrested over drug trafficking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17-year-old arrested over drug trafficking A 17-year-old youth was arrested on Saturday afternoon after being caught selling drugs, police said in a statement on Sunday. The police said that the teenager, who is from Msida,&#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-84755","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\/84755"}],"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=84755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}