Drug dealers get 10 years in jail

The First High Criminal Court awarded an Asian national a jail term of 10 years and a fine of BD3,000 for peddling drugs and staying illegally in the Kingdom. Two others involved, an Asian by nationality and a Bahraini man, were given one-year imprisonment each and a fine of BD1,000.

The Anti-Narcotics Department in Interior Ministry arrested the suspects. The incidents leading to their arrest occurred when a Bahraini man fell unconscious inside a shop in Central Manama and was informed about it to the police. Police were tipped-off regarding the incident by one of the shop owners in the mall. A detailed medical examination proved drug abuse as the reason for the man falling unconscious.

His confession led to the arrest of the two others. When asked, the man, during interrogation, confessed that he got it from an Asian man. Bahraini man’s blood and urine tests showed traces of heroin. Investigators found that the Asian men are selling heroin in Manama and its suburbs regularly.

The department ambushed the drug dealers, after setting a deal with both the men to buy BD20 worth of heroin.  Police arrested the suspects red-handed while delivering two rolls of heroin near a residential building in Gudaibiya. The suspects during interrogation confessed that they were selling drugs in different areas of the Capital.