This is called a nice catch.
Police officers from the Meaux police station, who patrolled on foot with municipal police officers, in the Beauval district, in Meaux, discovered more than 4 kg of drugs in a box on Thursday afternoon.
And this, thanks to the dog of the dog unit of the SOP (Public order service), specialized in the detection of narcotics.
The animal "marked" in front of a box in the Square du Berry.
The police then opened it: inside, it was a bit like Ali Baba's cave.
A weapon, cartridges and a stolen motorcycle also found
Investigators seized just over 4 kg of cannabis resin, packaged in the form of olives, as well as more than 240 g of cocaine, packaged in the same way.
Everything was ready for transport.
The police also discovered a handgun, cartridges and a stolen motorcycle.
"We regularly organize joint security operations in different sectors," said the divisional commissioner Thierry Satiat, head of the Meaux police station.
Three people were arrested in the wake of the discovery: the couple who rent the box (a 26-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man) as well as a 45-year-old man, who was in the box next door.
The three were taken into custody in the premises of the Departmental Security, in Meaux, which was seized of the investigation.
They were released this Friday at the end of the day.