Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi police have arrested a housewife who allegedly sold banned drugs to an undercover officer.
She was caught selling 6,480 pills for Dh300,000 to an officer who works at the anti-narcotic department.
Colonel Sultan Al Darmaki, head of the anti-narcotics section at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said that information came in about a 30-year-old woman, F.A., who possessed a batch of drugs and was searching for a buyer.
Fixed appointment
The woman was placed under surveillance, a judicial permit was issued, and one of Abu Dhabi’s police officers — working undercover — fixed an appointment with the woman to purchase the pills at a certain location in the capital.
The woman was caught red-handed as she handed over the drugs to the undercover police officer.
She was making another deal to sell more drugs after she received a new batch of pills from a drug-dealer abroad.
Al Darmaki also said that the drug shipment was placed in many carton boxes and strips, all of which totalled to 6,480 pills.
He called on the community to report any legal violation that may come to their knowledge, to put an end to such criminal acts which could affect the security and peace of the UAE.
The anti-narcotics law No 14/95 stipulates that whoever imports, exports, manufactures, extracts or holds narcotics shall be punished with life imprisonment and punitive measures may well reach the capital sentence if the narcotics dealt with are those in the list (1,2,4) on condition that the crime is committed with the intention of trading or pushing narcotics.
