The judicial police of the Hay Hassani and Sidi Bernoussi districts in Casablanca have seized, in two separate operations, more than 1.6 kg of Chira (cannabis resin) and sent four traffickers behind bars, it was indicated on Thursday by a police source.

The Judicial Police of Hay Hassani, following surveillance of the favourite haunts of two alleged dealers, arrested them in a vehicle inside which they found 35 grams of Chira.

Pushing their investigations a little further, the investigators traced the circuit of this traffic by grabbing, on the indications of the two dealers, their supplier from whom the police seized thirteen slabs of this drug, i.e., 1.3 kilograms, according to the same source, indicating that two other dealers supplied by the latter are actively sought.

Their colleagues in Sidi Bernoussi arrested another dealer in the act in possession of 350 grams of Chira while his supplier is still on the run.

The prefectural narcotics brigade had announced on Wednesday the arrest of a notorious Chira trafficker in the Sidi Bernoussi district and the seizure in his home of an amount of 315,000 dirhams, the proceeds of drug trafficking.

The judicial police of Sidi Bernoussi had succeeded, at the end of last February, in a good catch of 87 kilograms of Chira and 30 kg of contraband tobacco by setting an ambush for the alleged supplier, originally from the north of the country, who supplied dealers in several cities including Kenitra, Rabat, Sale, Mohammedia, Casablanca, Berrechid, and Mediouna.