Eight arrests for drugs

 

POLICE have arrested eight youths, among them three minors, in relation to drug-related offences after discovering drugs at a house in Larnaca. 

Police searched the house of a youth, 21, where they found 105 grammes of cannabis, seven cannabis plants, seven ecstasy pills and €290. 

The youths were also found to be carrying small amounts of cannabis. 

The seven youths who were in the 21-year-old’s house told the police that he was their supplier.

The youngest among them was a 16-year-old male while the other two were a male and female, both aged seventeen. 

The three other were males aged 18, 19, 20 and 24 years of age. 

The 21-year-old has admitted he was supplying drugs and was yesterday remanded for four days by Larnaca district court. 

 

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