AMMAN —
The State Security Court on Monday handed 15-year jail terms with hard labor
and a fine of JD10,000 to two drug traffickers who were convicted of smuggling
16kg of crystal meth from Syria.
اضافة اعلان
In its verdict, which
was issued during a public session, the court ordered the confiscation of the
sum of JD10,800 in their possession and of the vehicle they used.
The court heard that
the convicts had smuggled the narcotics in a gas cylinder as part of the
vehicle’s cargo from Syria.
Police personnel
tracked the vehicle, discovered the contraband and arrested the traffickers as
one of was receiving the drugs and handed the driver JD10,800, according to the
findings.
The driver refused an
order to stop and rammed the vehicle into two military vehicles of the
Anti-Narcotics Department as he tried to flee, but security forces overpowered
him and seized the drugs, the court said.
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