Police officer caught selling Indian hemp at post
He was on duty at an NIB Bank, but was caught on CCTV camera selling the said substances. He has been transferred to Accra to be processed for court.
Provisional charges of possession and peddling of substance suspected to be Cannabis have been levelled against him.
Reports are rife that Corporal Prince Opoku is notorious for entertaining the company of known tugs while at post for which he had been warned, but to no avail.
News channel, newsgh.com reported that the corporal was detailed for bank guard duties at NIB Mampong branch but the Branch Manager realized his movements and activities in and around the bank were suspicious.He was said to have always been moving to and fro on the adjoining streets of the bank.
The suspicion of the branch manager was however heightened when a known criminal was seen spending hours with him at the bank and after that the manager warned him.
However, the Police Officer did not stop, rather a lot more suspicious characters continued to visit him while he was on duty. CCTV camera footage subsequently captured him selling an item hence the district commander was called to come and witness what game the cop was up to.
Corporal Prince Opoku was arrested but he denied sending a bag to the bank, but officials of the bank identified his bag to the commander.
Upon opening the bag, it contained a black polyethylene with 73 wrappers of weed, Nine tablets of tramadol tablets all suspected to be narcotics drugs, a pair of scissors, his personal belongings and a dying declaration he wrote on 10th June.
He finally confessed the bag belonged to him and attempted explaining that he had the exhibit from an operation he conducted at a location close to the bank the previous day, but couldn’t officially report to the charge office.
But the CCTV footage proved otherwise leading to him being taken into custody.
He has since been transferred to the police headquarters in Accra where he is expected to be arraigned before court.
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