Visitor carrying 2kg hasish in fruit box arrested in Dubai Airport
Sides of the wooden box containing fruit were lined with the drugs
Dubai: A Dubai visitor has been arrested after he was found with nearky 2kg of hashish hidden in a fruit box.
According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, vigilant staff at the arrivals area in Dubai airport caught the 26-year-old Pakistani visitor with the drugs.
Customs officers, who noticed the unusual thickness on the sides of a wooden box containing fruit, searched the box.
“We suspected that there was something amiss in the luggage and searched the fruit box. We then found the hashish,” said a 24-year-old Emirati official in records.
Dubai Public Prosecution charged the defendant with possessing and smuggling illegal drugs.
The next hearing has been scheduled for February 11.
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