Police in Mombasa County have made headway in the continued fight against drugs abuse in the region.

Detectives from the Anti-Narcotics Unit on Wednesday, January 8 busted large rolls of bhang cleverly hidden in the boot of a Toyota Azio car at Jomvu, along the busy Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.

In the process, the officers arrested one Dominik Oseko Ngisa, the driver of the suspicious vehicle of registration number KCK 544J.

In a simultaneous operation, officers from Kiembeni Police Station descended on a house near Kiembeni Primary School, where they seized six sacks of bhang.

“However, the suspected trafficker managed to slip away just as the officers arrived, evading capture by the skin of his teeth,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) reports.

The arrested suspect was promptly taken into custody, along with the confiscated drugs, and escorted to Jomvu Police Station for processing, pending arraignment.

Meanwhile, detectives are intensifying their efforts to track down the elusive trafficker who narrowly escaped their grasp.