Baker gets 15 years for selling drugs in Bahrain

TDT | Manama

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The High Criminal Court has sentenced an asian man to 15 years in prison for peddling drugs. The court also ordered his deportation after completing the prison terms. Another person implicated in the case for consuming drugs received a jail term of three months.

Court files say the suspect, who was working as a baker during the day, sold drugs at night. His activities came under police radar following an investigation into a tip-off tat the man was selling hashish in Zayed Town. After confirming the information, police set up a team with an undercover agent to trap the suspect.

The undercover agent approached the suspect and offered to buy BD80 worth of drugs from him. Unsuspecting the trap set, the man agreed to meet the agent with drugs in an area kept under police surveillance. Soon after handing over the drugs, officers swooped upon him and took him into custody.

Police retrieved from him eight hashish-stuffed cigarettes and another 50 from his house. During interrogation, the suspect confessed to his crimes. “I work as a baker in the morning while taking advantage of the night to peddle drugs,” he told prosecutors. Police officers had also suspected the involve - ment of another man in the crime, as he was abetting the suspect.

However, it later turned out that he was only consuming. The court, therefore, awarded him a lighter punishment.