{"id":85510,"date":"2026-08-05T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/woman-charged-with-drug-trafficking-after-being-caught-with-litany-of-substances\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:22:00","slug":"woman-charged-with-drug-trafficking-after-being-caught-with-litany-of-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/woman-charged-with-drug-trafficking-after-being-caught-with-litany-of-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with drug trafficking after being caught with litany of substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman charged with drug trafficking after being caught with litany of substances<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old woman was arrested by police and charged in court with drug trafficking after she was caught while in possession of a litany of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement that a search in the woman&rsquo;s St Julian&rsquo;s residence on Tuesday morning resulted in the finding of several packets and bags which were filled with several types of illegal substances.<\/p>\n<p>The substances were suspected to be cocaine, ecstasy, MDMA, ketamine, tusi, and cannabis grass.<\/p>\n<p>Other objects &ldquo;related to trafficking&rdquo; were also found.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Philip Galea Farrugia is leading an inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The woman meanwhile was charged under arrest before Magistrate Ann Marie Thake with aggravated drug possession, drug trafficking, and money laundering among other offences.<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded not guilty and was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-08-05\/local-news\/Woman-charged-with-drug-trafficking-after-being-caught-with-litany-of-substances-6736291922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman charged with drug trafficking after being caught with litany of substances<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman charged with drug trafficking after being caught with litany of substances A 37-year-old woman was arrested by police and charged in court with drug trafficking after she was caught while in possession of 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-85510","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\/85510"}],"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=85510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}