Huge cache of drugs seized

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MUHAMMAD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS
Publication Date: 
Sat, 2010-12-11 23:20

“We discovered methamphetamine pills hidden amidst vegetables and food items such as pumpkin seeds, cheese and melons in a car passing the checkpoint. The smuggler had his wife and children with him,” said Director of Al-Darrah Customs House Rahim Al-Hafi.
The Interior Ministry announced in April, that it had seized some eight million Captagon tablets, 2.727 tons of hashish and 20 kilograms of pure heroin. During that operation 108 Saudis, 29 Pakistanis, 17 Yemenis, nine Syrians, a Turk, a Sudanese, an Egyptian, an Indian, and 28 people without identity documents, were arrested.
In August 2009, the authorities announced the arrest of 113 smugglers who were attempting to bring in three tons of hashish, three million stimulant pills and 10 kilograms of heroin into the Kingdom.

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