{"id":229853,"date":"2026-04-08T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-multiple-arrests-over-suspected-narcotic-drugs-in-uwr\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:43:26","slug":"ghana-multiple-arrests-over-suspected-narcotic-drugs-in-uwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-multiple-arrests-over-suspected-narcotic-drugs-in-uwr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Multiple Arrests Over Suspected Narcotic Drugs in Uwr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Ghana Police Service has arrested several persons in connection with the possession of suspected narcotic drugs in the Upper West Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The arrests followed what the Upper West Regional Police Command described as a major breakthrough in its ongoing operations to combat narcotics trafficking and related criminal activities in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to a statement issued by the Command and shared with The Ghanaian Times, the past four weeks of police operations and intelligence gathering led&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080395.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has arrested several persons in connection with the possession of suspected narcotic drugs in the Upper West Region. The arrests followed what the Upper West Regional Police Command described as a major breakthrough in its ongoing operations to combat narcotics trafficking and related criminal activities in the region. According to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7845,6614,4508,4509,11456,30246,257,254,7846,29783],"class_list":["post-229853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-drugs","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-multiple","tag-narcotic","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected","tag-uwr"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}