{"id":84786,"date":"2026-06-16T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/four-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-and-cultivation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:19:00","slug":"four-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-and-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/four-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-and-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Four men arrested in connection with drug trafficking and cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four men arrested in connection with drug trafficking and cultivation<\/p>\n<p>Four foreign men were arrested in two separate cases involving alleged drug trafficking in St Julian&#8217;s and the illegal cultivation of cannabis plants in Naxxar.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The first arrests took place on Sunday evening after police were informed of suspected drug trafficking in the vicinity of St George&#8217;s Road, St Julian&#8217;s. Upon arriving at the scene, police identified two individuals, aged 24 and 30, both from Somalia.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">A search of the men revealed approximately 30 sachets containing substances suspected to be cocaine, heroin, and cannabis.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Meanwhile, on Monday morning, a 27-year-old man from the Netherlands and a 31-year-old man from Sweden were arrested following a raid on a residence in Triq it-Torri tal-Kaptan, Naxxar.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Authorities confiscated around 50 cannabis plants, along with a quantity of cannabis resin and various items related to drug cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nRSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-06-16\/local-news\/Four-men-arrested-in-connection-with-drug-trafficking-and-cultivation-6736290552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four men arrested in connection with drug trafficking and cultivation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men arrested in connection with drug trafficking and cultivation Four foreign men were arrested in two separate cases involving alleged drug trafficking in St Julian&#8217;s and the illegal cultivation of cannabis plants in Naxxar&#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-84786","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\/84786"}],"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=84786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}