Sailors try to smuggle 9,228 drug pills into Dubai in boat

Dubai - Police's anti-narcotics department also seized a variety of other drugs.

Three Iranian sailors, caught trying to smuggle more than 40.8kg of drugs stashed in the diesel tanks of their boat, denied at the Dubai Court of First Instance a charge of smuggling drugs for peddling. The defendants are aged between 30 and 38.
Other than those drugs, the Dubai Police's anti-narcotics department also seized 9,228 psychotropic pills which were found in the boat.
The case dates back to November 20, last year, and was registered at the port police station.
An anti-narcotics police sergeant said he was on duty at Naif port when he was informed by the customs officers that a boat was seized with a large quantity of drugs hidden in its diesel tanks. "We went, together with the customs officers, to the boat and questioned the first accused. He said he knew about the stashed drugs.
He claimed he was assigned by the boat owner in Iran to deliver the boat to a person in Dubai and that the other accomplices would take care of the drug delivery. We took them to the narcotics department for the legal procedure."
The seized drugs included hashish, opium, heroin, marijuana and crystal meth and other narcotics.
The trial will continue on March 18.

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