The Criminal Court in Dammam has sentenced a Saudi man and a Bahraini woman to prison terms and lashes for possessing and selling drugs, and having an illicit sexual relationship.

The city’s criminal investigation and anti-drug department had arrested the man and woman at a house in the old part of the city after receiving a tip-off from a source.

The investigating team had initially received information from the source that the Bahraini woman was selling hashish. The team had then used the source to enter the woman’s house to buy the drug.

When the source came out, he had 4.9 grams of hashish, and a Captagon pill as “a gift.” He also told the team that the woman had a man in the house unrelated to her.

The squad then raided the house with a policewoman and arrested the woman and the Saudi man who had been supplying her with the drugs.

The team seized sums of money, 143 Captagon pills, 18 pieces of hashish and 10 bottles of liquor.

The woman claimed the hashish was for personal use, and that the Saudi man owned the pills and liquor.

During his interrogation, the Saudi man confessed he was in a relationship with the woman and that the two planned to marry after she divorced her husband currently imprisoned in Riyadh. He said the woman sold Captagon and alcohol.

The prosecution had called on the court to punish the two severely.

The court sentenced the woman to five years in prison, 300 lashes in six equal parts, and a fine of SR10,000. She was also given an extra year in prison, 200 lashes for the illicit relationship, and would be deported once she completes her sentence.

The court sentenced the Saudi man to four years in prison and 400 lashes in eight equal parts.