Airport Police Arrest Man for Smuggling of Drugs in Shoes
Customs police at the Rafik Hariri International Airport on Tuesday, thwarted a drug smuggling bid and seized six kilograms of drugs carefully hidden inside shoe soles, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Police was informed that a drug trafficker identified by his initials as Aa.A would try to smuggle drugs through the airport, NNA.
The suspect, a Lebanese, was flying from South America and bound for Lebanon early at dawn on Tuesday.
He had hidden the drugs in the shoes soles in a professional manner, said NNA.
The smuggler was arrested and transferred to the Anti-Narcotics Bureau.
Source: Naharnet
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