A Cape Verdean judge has detained six people and confiscated several types of drugs.

This Saturday, the Judicial Police (JP) of Cape Verde detained six people and seized several types of drugs during an operation carried out on the island of São Vicente, it said.

“Operation Epicenter” involved a complete early morning siege of the Kampim area by dozens of police inspectors, supported by the national police and military.

Several residences were searched and “unspecified quantities of cocaine, hashish and cannabis were seized,” as well as vehicles, household appliances and cash.

The operation was launched following an investigation into a criminal network with a core in Kampima, suspected of crimes related to drug trafficking, receipt and money laundering through various arteries of the island.

The statement said the joint venture believes it has “interrupted one of the most important drug trafficking chains on the island of Sao Vicente,” which is also linked to other crimes.

Anti-drug trafficking efforts by the Cape Verde PS led to other seizures.

Two weeks ago, a San Vicente court ordered the preventive detention of one of two people detained for possession of two kilograms of hashish transported in a taxi.

In March, bags of cocaine were found along the coast on the island of Mayo in a case in which nine people were detained in preventive detention – the island is just over 20 kilometers from Santiago, the island’s capital Praia.

A month earlier, in February, the Sao Filipe District Prosecutor’s Office on Fogo Island issued a search warrant at the residence of two suspects, aged 27 and 33, where an undisclosed amount of cocaine and cutting tools were seized. , ammunition, precision scales and money.