Dubai: A cook and a waitress have been accused of possessing 0.86gm of methamphetamine that they were caught selling to a police informant in a sting operation.

The 30-year-old Filipina waitress and her 35-year-old countryman cook were said to have possessed methamphetamine that they intended to sell for Dh3,000 before drug officers arrested them in a supermarket’s parking lot in Deira in July.

Prosecutors charged the cook and the waitress with possessing drugs for trading purposes and consuming methamphetamine and amphetamine.

The 35-year-old was solely charged with possessing 21gm of methamphetamine for trading purposes.

The duo pleaded not guilty when they appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Thursday.

They denied the accusation of possessing the banned substance for trading purposes.

An anti-narcotics police lieutenant claimed to prosecutors that an informant alerted them that the waitress possessed methamphetamine and was about to hand them over to the informant.

“We did not arrange a sting operation to apprehend the 30-year-old for trading in drugs because we did not want to expose the informant. We obtained prosecutors’ warrant to arrest the woman in a sting operation for possession only. The informant was present with the undercover police team when he communicated with the waitress to meet him in the parking lot. A car arrived at the parking and the waitress stepped out … then we immediately raided the location and apprehended her. When asked, she admitted that she possessed methamphetamine in her purse. Upon confronting her, she claimed that she had agreed with the informant to sell the substance for Dh3,000. When asked where she got the drugs from, she admitted that the cook gave it to her. We apprehended the latter who was in the car … police records showed that a previous search and arrest warrant had been issued in his name before that bust. During questioning, the waitress claimed that she had asked the cook to provide her with methamphetamine for her boyfriend without paying anything in return. Meanwhile the cook admitted that he bought the drugs for Dh10,000 from a Chinese woman in Fujairah,” the lieutenant testified.

A ruling will be heard on November 28.