Pair caught with heroin disguised as women’s accessories

Dubai: Two suspects were arrested in Dubai for smuggling seven kilograms of women’s accessories packed with heroin.

Maj Gen Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, said the smuggling method the suspects used was sophisticated and not easily detectable.

The two suspects, an African man and an Asian woman, were arrested in a park in Dubai, where the woman was handing over a bag full of accessories to the other suspect.

Colonel Eid Thani Hareb, Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department at Dubai Police, said the man, A.G.H., 33, tried to escape the police, but they were able to subdue him and cuff him.

When the woman, S.K.M., 39, who was on a visit visa, saw her partner had been caught, she attempted to flee without causing suspicion, by walking faster, but she too was caught.

The bag was seized from S.K.M. and seven kilograms of accessories were found in the bag. The accessories included bracelets, pendants, coloured beads.

The drugs were hidden under a thin transparent plastic film that coated the accessories.

Between January and November 2015, the Anti-Narcotics Department seized 99.178kg of Heroin in 104 cases.

The two suspects were transferred to public prosecution on charges of possession of drugs for A.G.H., and smuggling drugs into the country for the purpose of selling for S.K.M.