The operatives of the Edo State police command have paraded 18 suspected drug addicts at a drug hideout in Edo State
The suspects comprising 12 males and six females were arrested by the surveillance unit of the command following a raid on drug hideout within Benin City.
Parading the suspects, the Edo state Commissioner of Police, CP Funsho Adeboye, said the suspects were arrested on February 27, following credible intelligence.
He said the police receive information that a particular house located in Ogbelaka street has become a den for criminal elements, illicit drug arms and ammunition.
According to him, the suspects also used the place to make all the necessary plans before the perpetration of crimes within Benin metropolis.
“The police stormed the place and arrested the 18 persons including 12 males and six females between the age of 17 and 39 years. Substance suspected to be indian hemp was recovered from them.
CP Adeboye added that the suspects were brought to the command for profiling, interrogation and investigation.
He noted that the effect of their drugs intake is telling on the suspects as some of them are no longer useful to the society
“We are going to hand them over over to police medical doctors for rehabilitation. But those whose condition is above us would be sent to the appropriate place they need to be for treatment”.
While calling on the people not to harbour drug users but report to the appropriate quarters, he said the police are on the trail of drugs dealer who are selling the drugs to youths.