The police said this evening that four people are under arrest after a “substantial” discovery of cannabis and cash yesterday afternoon.

The arrests were the outcome of weeks of investigation and surveillance by the members of the Drug Squad.

The police said they had been tailing a number of people and they were stopped and searched late yesterday afternoon in Sliema as drug trafficking was about to take place.

The police found almost eight kilograms of cannabis resin and €65,000 in cash.

The drug was in two cars while the cash was in a house in Sliema, a car and on one of the persons who were arrested.

A small amount of cocaine was also found.

The arrested persons are two men from Sliema aged 64 and 37, a 32-year-old man from Birkirkara and a woman aged 26 from Mosta.

Magistrate Doreen Clarke is holding an inquiry.

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