Kono — Police personnel at Motema police station yesterday arrested a driver with four cartons of assorted pharmaceutical drugs at Mambodu junction in Kono district.

Mustapha Kamara and his vehicle with registration number ADA 262 was stopped by the police for searching when the drugs were discovered.

Kamara was being led to the station when a passenger on board the vehicle, Abu Bakarr Kamara of No 10 Masingbi Road identified himself as the owner of the drugs.

Meanwhile, the driver and owner of the drugs were arrested and taken to the Motema police station for unlawful possession of assorted pharmaceutical drugs.

At the police station, a dispenser from Kono Government Hospital, Mr. Kamara and Mr. Tholey of the pharmaceutical board came to inspect the drugs and collected the suspects and the drugs as exhibit.