Over 3.8 tons of marijuana seized in northwestern Turkey

Drugs hidden in sacks with mint in a bid to elude sniffer dogs

By Ibrahim Aktas

ANKARA (AA) - Police seized some 3.86 tons (7,720 pounds) of powdered marijuana during a narco-terror operation in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, security sources said.

In the operation coordinated by the Directorate General of Security, local police teams of the narcotic department busted a cargo ship in the customs area of the Kocaeli province.

Besides marijuana, they confiscated nearly 100,000 opiate drugs in 119 sacks hidden in a container.

The teams detected that mint was put in sacks of drugs, which came from and trying to go abroad, in order to elude sniffer dogs.

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