By Nelson Manneh
Operatives of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The Gambia (DLEAG) stationed at the Banjul International Airport alongside personnel of the Joint Airport Interdiction Task Force (JAITF) took into custody a Brazilian national
for the possession of ecstasy.
The 22-year-old Brazilian suspect in the person of Ryan Gabriel Gomes Montoril for the possession of sixteen thousand one hundred and ninety pills of ecstasy.
The DLEAG reported that the suspect arrived in to the Gambia onboard Air Moroc from Brussels and was arrested at the arrival hall of the airport on the 10th of June 2025.
“The said drugs were concealed in a black travelling bag,” DLEAG indicated.
In a similar but separate development, DLEAG operatives stationed at Amdalai Border Post arrested one Abdoulie Faye, a 26-year-old Senegalese residing at Kaolack in Senegal.
The suspect was arrested at the border in Amdalai on the 15th of June 2025 with one hundred pills of ecstasy concealed in a yellow nylon bag.
Both suspects are currently in custody while further investigations into their respective matters continue.
