KUWAIT TIMES: KUWAIT: Following the seizure of drugs hidden inside some olives and seizing another 25 kg of heroin inside radishes in the UAE, Kuwait's Drug Control General department (DCGD) detectives managed to seize opium hidden inside some nut shells, said informed sources. The sources noted that the DCGD, under commandership of Brig Sheikh Ahmed Al-Khalifa, had been tipped off about the activity of an Iranian carpenter in Jahra who had been selling opium which he managed to smuggle in a while ago through the airport despite undergoing very thorough inspections. A special team consisting of Lt Khaled Gholoum and Lt Ali Adullah was assigned to the mission and managed to make a deal with the suspect to buy some opium for KD 50. The suspect was arrested red-handed on delivery and a further quarter kilo of the drug was found at his house. A case was filed and further investigations are still in progress. Iranian carpenter arrested in Jahra for opium trade (more) By Hanan Al-Sa'doun
Mark Alexander
