Nearly 200,000 Captagon Pills Seized at Beirut Apartment
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Lebanese customs agents arrested a man and his wife in Beirut on drug smuggling charges, announced the National News Agency on Wednesday.
It said that the customs anti-drug bureau raided their apartment in Beirut's Karakol al-Druze neighborhood where they discovered around 198,000 Captagon pills.
NNA said that the agents received an anonymous tip that led them towards a suspect, identified as S.A.M.
He was arrested in Beirut's Mar Elias neighborhood for the possession of a bag filled with a number of Captagon pills.
Following the interrogation of the detainee, a customs patrol raided his Karakol al-Druze apartment where they discovered a large amount of the drugs that were concealed in a “very professional manner,” said NNA.
Around 198,000 pills were seized.
The suspect's wife, M.M., was also arrested.
He confessed that he was safekeeping the drugs stash for a Saudi citizen, whom he had met while he was serving a jail term in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
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17 September 2014, 16:53
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"He confessed that he was safekeeping the drugs stash for a Saudi citizen, whom he had met while he was serving a jail term in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia."
Another February 14 Al Qaeda sympathizer caught with drugs, and coming from his own homeland no less.
Try to act surprised, everybody.
17 September 2014, 18:56
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The culprit has been identified with initial A.H who hails from the southern town of zahrani. He confessed without coercion he was acting on behalf of the terrorist iranian militia in manufacturing and marketing these drugs. The Anti drug unit of the ISF is in pursuit of the head of this dangerous group and all leads indicate the involvement of high ranking officials within the corrupt terrorist organization.
17 September 2014, 19:16
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I know off one group that deal with drugs. Can anyone name them?
