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Housewife dabbles in drug trade, sent to prison for life
DUBAI - A housewife and three men were sentenced to life in prison on Monday by the Court of First Instance as they were found guilty of possessing more than 22kg of heroin for trafficking.
The court, presided by Judge Hamad Abdel Latif Abdel Jawad, ordered that all of them be deported after serving their prison terms. The verdict is subject to appeal within 15 days at the Court of Appeal.
The 49-year-old Pakistani housewife (S.A.), and the three men, including two Pakistani visitors (M.N., and Q.R.) and an Indian salesman (I.A.), were arrested in the evening of October 19, 2010 by the Anti-Narcotics Section of the Dubai police. Q.R. and I.A. are also accused of using morphine. An Emirati police lieutenant told the prosecutor that they were tipped off about the defendants possessing drugs i for trafficking.
Their apartment in Baraha was raided after 11pm that night and a plastic bag containing capsules of heroin was found under a bed. They also found heroin on a paper on top of a carton containing tennis balls. The accused admitted to the cops that other people had helped them to bring the drugs from Pakistan. She claimed that about five days before the raid, five people had come from Pakistan with drug capsules hidden in their stomachs.
She said they collected the heroin from a Pakistani man in the Naif area and the quantity was to be delivered to an African national who stayed in a nearby hotel. The housewife told the lieutenant that she had been trafficking drugs for five years. She also claimed that the drugs seized from the flat belonged to the other defendants.
The woman admitted that they had been working in the business of smuggling and exporting drugs and narcotics. The drugs used to be smuggled to Africa and China. M.N. told the cops, however, that they were in the business with S.A. for about ten years. When questioned, I.A. admitted that his mission was to collect a quantity of drugs from a Pakistani man.
He collected about 33 cartons containing tennis balls from that man with heroin hidden smartly in some balls, the salesman revealed.
Another Emirati police corporal said that they found drugs in capsules inside plastic bags hidden in the kitchen’s false ceiling in the flat that day.
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