Police: The two people arrested for biting did not use bath salts

Maldives Police Service has said that the two people arrest in the two separate cases of biting did not use a drug with synthetic cathinones, also known as bath salts or Cloud Nine.

Police arrested the suspects involved in the two separate cases of mugging that took place at a mosque where the mugger bit off part of the man’s ear and another that took place in Addu City where a taxi driver was bit on the hand and head.

Some of the news media reported today that the biting and cannibalism was led to by using synthetic cathinones (also known as bath salts or Cloud Nine).

Police issued a statement regarding the reports saying that the investigation has not found any indication that synthetic cathinones is being imported and distributed in the Maldives and there has no cases of such a drug reported to the Police so far.

And so the Police assure the people of the country that synthetic cathinones has not been used by the suspects and there has been no incidents about an injury due to the use of that drug.

The Police also said that there is no relation between the use of bath salts and cannibalism according to a paper presented at Society for Neuroscience 2014.

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