Coimbatore City Police’s Prohibition Enforcement Wing (PEW) arrested five individuals on Friday for possession of 130 grams of methamphetamine, a synthetic drug.
Acting on specific intelligence, the PEW team intercepted a car around 3 p.m. in the city. The vehicle was being travelled by Ajay, Manikandan, Visagan, Abbas, and Dhanush. Upon searching the vehicle, police recovered 130 grams of the synthetic drug methamphetamine.
Authorities have registered a case and are investigating the source of the drugs as well as potential links to larger narcotics networks operating in the region.