{"id":85531,"date":"2026-08-06T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/four-arrested-for-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:43:00","slug":"four-arrested-for-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/four-arrested-for-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested for drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four arrested for drug trafficking<\/p>\n

Four people were arrested in St Julian’s in connection with drug trafficking, police said in a statement on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Police said that initially, two people were arrested after they were found to be in possession of several illegal substances by officers on patrol in St Julian’s.<\/p>\n

This was after one of those two arrested – a 38-year-old man from Somali who lives in Birzebbuga – approached a plain-clothes officer and offered to sell him drugs.  <\/p>\n

He was immediately arrested, and so was a 41-year-old Romanian living in St Julian’s who was frequently seen with the Somali.<\/p>\n

Searches on them resulted in 18 packets of cocaine, 12 packets of cannabis, and a number of bags containing 13 pills of MDMA.<\/p>\n

Police then moved to the Romanian man’s residence in St Julian’s, where they found a 27-year-old Maltese man from Senglea and a 33-year-old Colombian man who lives in the same place processing and packaging a substance called tusi.<\/p>\n

They were arrested immediately, and 10 more MDMA pills were found at the house as well.<\/p>\n

All four are expected to be charged on Thursday before Magistrate Jean Paul Grech, while Magistrate Philip Galea Farrugia is leading an inquiry.<\/p>\n

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