Dubai: Seven suspects were arrested in a joint collaboration between Dubai and Sharjah Police for possessing, smuggling, trafficking, and using narcotics.
The narcotics unit of Dubai Police received information about the presence of a suspect trafficking narcotics in Naif. The suspect provided a capsule with heroin in it as a sample to a potential client.
According to Major General Abdul Jaleel Mahdi, Director of the general department for combating narcotics at Dubai Police, the suspect identified as G.M.H. was monitored and arrested.
He confessed that he supplied a sample and that the rest of the items are with another suspect, identified as M.Sh, who resided in Sharjah was arrested along with three suspects and two women who were with him at the apartment.
M.Sh's wife, who had capsules of heroin stashed in her intestine, was among the two women arrested.
Around 4.6 kg of heroin were collected in the operation. The suspects are being detained at Al Qusais Police Station.
