Mangaluru anti-rowdy squad nails two drug peddlers

The Mangaluru police anti-rowdy Squad has arrested a drug dealer and his associate, here on Monday.  

Mangaluru's infamous drug peddler Carl Lewis D' Cunha alias (29) Austin of Hampanakatta and his associate Anoop D Almada (26) were arrested by  The south zone anti-rowdy squad.  

Police have recovered banned substances such LSD, MDMA and MDM from the duo.

The squad had captured an inter-state gang of drug peddlers dealing in the same kind of hallucinogens weeks ago.    Carl and Anoop who headed that gang were absconding since then.  

The squad headed by south zone ACP K Rama Rao has recovered 93 MDM tablets, a car, three mobiles and Rs 30,850 cash from the accused according to Mangaluru Police Commissioner T R Suresh.  

The police had arrested K B Sunil, Shravan Poojari, Roshan Vegas and Bashim Basheer of the same gang earlier, and recovered a big haul of drugs from them.  

Police said Carl D' Cunha was also running a drug racket in Bengaluru and there are cases registered against him in 2014 and 2015.