{"id":26793,"date":"2016-07-11T01:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drug-dealer-arrested-in-kirehe\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T01:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:56:02","slug":"drug-dealer-arrested-in-kirehe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drug-dealer-arrested-in-kirehe\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug dealer arrested in Kirehe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A suspected drug trafficker has been arrested in Kirehe District in an intensified awareness and crackdown against drug dealers.}<\/p>\n<p>Cassien Uwitonze, 42, was arrested in the wee hours of Saturday with 8 kilogrammes of cannabis, after the driver of the public vehicle he attempted to board, notified Police. He is currently detained at Kirehe Police Station for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector of Police (IP) Emmanuel Kayigi, Police spokesperson for the Eastern Province said Uwitonze was intercepted in Cyunuzi Cell o Gatore Sector as he boarded a public vehicle that was headed to Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUwitonze attempted to board a vehicle to Kigali in Gatore but as the driver was loading his luggage, he suspected that it could be an illegal luggage and immediately called Police, who checked the luggage and actually found about 8 kilograms of cannabis  concealed and the suspect was taken into custody right away,\u201d IP Kayigi said, commending the vigilance of the driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing an improved vigilance of transporters; we are increasingly receiving similar cases where drivers and motorcyclists have practiced their community policing powers detect and report drug dealers that attempt to use their vehicles to traffic narcotics from one place to another,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kirehe and Nyagatare districts are said to be major routes for cannabis and banned gin respectively in the Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf everyone and all services play their community policing part and be vigilant, all drug dealers will find no place to hide,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting drug abuse is among the RNP policing priorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13417 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm_cuffs_12_b630a51c67.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A suspected drug trafficker has been arrested in Kirehe District in an intensified awareness and crackdown against drug dealers.} Cassien Uwitonze, 42, was arrested in the wee hours of Saturday with 8 kilogrammes of cannabis, after the driver of the public vehicle he attempted to board, notified Police. He is currently detained at Kirehe Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[550],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-police"],"bylines":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}