A woman who fled into scrubland after running out of a car being pursued by police has been arrested and a handbag containing 43 grams of Cannabis seized as part of a remote roadblock operation on the Central Arnhem Highway, NT Police said.

Two cars were pulled over where a woman in one of the cars ran into the scrubland where she was located some time later by police several kilometres from the highway, while drug dog Rafa had been deployed and located a handbag containing the marijuana stashed in a “thick bush”, police said.

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