DUBAI // A man will spend four years behind bars after he was convicted of possessing drugs, which he had hidden inside a small iron pipe in his laundry room at home.
Unemployed Emirati MA, 37, was charged with possessing 3.43 grammes of heroin and with consuming drugs, which he confessed to at the Dubai Criminal Court last month.
Dubai Police’s anti-narcotics department got a tip-off about the man. “He is known to us because he has a criminal record for drug-related offences,” testified police officer AA, 37.
He added that, after obtaining an arrest warrant, the defendant was apprehended at his house on November 25 last year.
“He confessed during questioning that he bought the heroin in return for Dh1,500 from a Pakistani man whom he said he did not know and that he left him the drug under the exit sign of a petrol station located on Dubai-Al Ain Road,” added AA.
The officer went on to say that the defendant would contact his dealer via phone but that, after buying the drugs, the Pakistani had changed his number and he had lost contact with him.
A forensics report confirmed that MA’s urine sample contained traces of drugs.
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