Man arrested for trying to sell drugs during Iftar party

The Abu Dhabi Police arrested a man and seized 3,000 drug pills.

The man tried to sell pills containing different types of drugs during Iftar time after assuming that the police or security bodies wouldn’t be active during that time., the police said.

In a Press statement, Colonel Taher Ghareeb Al Dhaheri, director of drug control directorate of the criminal security sector, said the 53-year-old dealer tried to sell the drugs during the call for Maghrib prayer as “he thought no one would be monitoring his illegal activities”.

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The police, however, had received a tip-off, which said a drug dealer was looking to sell a “huge amount of drugs”. In an operation nicknamed ‘under the microscope’, the police monitored the suspect’s movements and arrested him during a raid. The police seized the drug pills and the cash he had during the raid.

“The suspect was fully shocked when he was being arrested because he thought he was too smart to be discovered by the police. When confronted with the evidence against him, he confessed to the crimes and confirmed that the drugs seized from him belonged to him. His case was then transferred to the public prosecution for further investigations,” Col Al Dhaheri said.