A woman identified as Mariama Kanteh, aged 34, has been arrested with five plastic bags of kush (Fentanyl) and a tube of cocaine while visiting her brother at the Monrovia Central Prison facility.
Defendant Kanteh was arrested by a Correction Officer on July 24, 2024, with five medicine plastics of mixed cannabis and fentanyl and one tube of cocaine.
Police investigation resolved to charge Kanteh with the commission of the crime of “Unlicensed Possession Of Control Drugs or Substance” which is in violation of Chapter 14, section 14.89 of the New Drugs Law of Liberia, pending trial by a court of competent jurisdiction.
The street value of the substances is put at LS17, 500 and the one tube of cocaine is in the tune of L$50,000.
She was informed of her miranda rights which she waived and her statement was taken voluntarily.
According to police charge sheet, the defendant narrated that on the 24th of July 2024 at 1:40 pm while on her way to visit her brother, Mohammed Kanteh, a convict at the Monrovia Central Prison, she received a call from one Titus to be identified, also a convict at the Monrovia Central Prison, who told her via phone to go on UN Drive and pick-up something for him.
Also narrating, she said that upon her arrival, she went and collected a black plastic bag which contained five medical plastics of what she referred to as Kush and a tube of Cocaine from a bike rider which she did not open.
Based on that, she was arrested and turned over to the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Liberia National for investigation. During the investigative findings, the defendant denied been owner of the plastic bag and admitted that it was in her possession when she entered the prison compound.
The charge sheet mentioned that the street or black market value of the entire dangerous drugs and controlled substances stand at L$67,00.
