Police arrested two African men for possessing and peddling heroin.

Police arrested two African men for possessing and peddling heroin. Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) received a tip-off that a suspect, identified as A.B., possessed heroin. An undercover police officer offered to buy the heroin for Dh7,000 for every one kilogram. The suspect also showed the officer a sample. Police kept the suspect under surveillance and set up a trap to arrest him.
On the day of the narcotics delivery, the two suspects arrived at the location with a bag. During the delivery, the police arrested them and seized 31 plastic bags with heroin, weighing 4.7 kilograms and worth around half a million dirhams. The two suspects were referred to the Pubic Prosecution.

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Dubai Police have arrested two men in possession of more than six kg of heroin

Dubai Police have arrested two men in possession of more than six kg of heroin, an official said yesterday. He said the drugs found on the Africans was worth a total of more than dhs200,000. “They wanted to smuggle it to Asia, Europe and Africa but we arrested them,” he said.Officers were alerted to the men after a suspect package at Cargo Village was inspected and found to contain some heroin pills. They then traced the box and raided the mens’ flat in Dubai.
“One of them still had heroin pills in his stomach,” the police official said. The men have now been referred to public prosecution.

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Dubai police have busted an international drugs trafficking gang which was planning to smuggle a huge quantity of heroin

The anti narcotics officials of the Dubai police have busted an international drugs trafficking gang which was planning to smuggle a huge quantity of heroin to a number of countries, WAM news agency reported Monday. The anti-narcotics officials seized over 6.1 kg heroin worth 615,200 United Arab Emirates dirhams ($167,730) from the African gang during a raid Sunday, an official with the Crime Investigation Department said.“The arrest of the African gang was triggered by police’s discovery of a filter in the parcel in which the heroin capsules, weighing over 1.1 kg, were hidden at Dubai cargo village. The parcel was ready to be flown to an African country,” the official said.After the discovery of the parcel, the CID tracked down the sender, who was staying at a hotel in Dubai.The police raided his room and found many heroin capsules, weighing 4,458 kg. He was arrested along with one of his aides who police suspected to have swallowed some strange materials.According to the police, the man vomited 54 capsules of heroin, weighing 783 grams, after his arrest.
Both suspects were referred to public prosecution for further investigation, pending trial. The UAE, Dubai in particular, is a major regional transportation and shipping hub which gives drug traffickers a chance to smuggle the narcotics to Europe and the US.

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Dubai Customs have succeeded in aborting an attempt to smuggle heroin through Terminal 1 in Dubai International Airport.

Inspectors of Dubai Customs have succeeded in aborting an attempt to smuggle heroin through Terminal 1 in Dubai International Airport.
According to a statement from the Customs, the inspectors grew suspicious of a passenger who arrived from an Asian country due to his behaviour. A scan conducted on him revealed a number of capsules in his stomach.
The passenger admitted he swallowed 137 capsules containing heroin. He was offered a big amount of money to smuggle the heroin into the UAE.

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