Friday 23rd May 2025
Two men from the Western Highlands province were arrested and charged under Section 3 (1) of the Dangerous Drug Act (DDA) for being in possession of Dangerous Drugs.
North Fly acting Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Inspector Anjap Minata confirmed that thetwo drug boxes weighed about 18Kilograms and were worth K90,000.00 to K100,000.00 on the street market.
PPCMinata said the Kiunga police apprehended the suspects at Rubber Corner in the North Fly District in the Western province. He said the suspects were identified as Sam Koim, aged 34 and Jackson Sandy, aged 42 years old from Hagen Central in the Western Highlands Province.
Mr Minata said the suspects were apprehended when police attended the complaint of a sexual penetration case of an underage girl committed by the main suspect Sam Koim at Rubber Corner outside Kiunga town in the Western province.
He said the suspects were standing with the boxes of marijuana when police approved them in relation to sexual penetration. They took both suspects to the police station and opened the cargo boxes and discovered nicely wrapped dried marijuana. The suspects admitted to the police that the boxes belonged to them.
Mr Minata said that the drugs were nicely wrapped with black wrapper and sent through the Mail Express Call via Port Moresby from Mt Hagen to Kiunga. He said by the look of it, it was professionally designed and organized business run by the suspects.
PPC Minata said the suspect Sam Koim has already been arrested and charged in 2018 for the same offence. He was imprisoned for two years but he has never learnt from it.
“It is a fast-making money business, and everyone involves in these illegal activities, but law will still catch up with you one fine day.
“So, you must stop this illegal activity immediately and involve in other money-making business, PPC Minata said. PPC Minata warned all the youths in the province who are involved in trading marijuana to do away with such illegal activities and engaged themselves in other positive activities that generate an income.
The named suspects with two boxes containing marijuana which weighs 18kilograms