Guard punished for injuring policemen

DUBAI: A drug-abusing security guard who slammed a window on three policemen’s arms and threatened to knife them will spend seven years behind bars, a jury ruled on Sunday.

The Arab man, 39, pushed and kicked a lieutenant, sergeant and policeman and slammed a window on their arms inflicting them with multiple injuries on the evening of Sept.13.2017, prosj ecutors said.

He threatened to knife them if they did not leave him alone. They were struggling to nab him for possessing a torch containing two tinfoil rolls stuffed with 9.68g and a banknote roll stuffed with 3.06g of hashish.

He consumed hashish and Tramaj dol and possessed with the intention of consuming two pills and a half of Tramadol. The Dubai Criminal Court handed him five years over assault and two years over drugs.

In Al Qusais Police Station records, the Antinarcotics Department dispatched the police team to the workers’ accomj modation of an automobiles company in Al Qusais to arrest the guard inside his room.

They knocked on his door. He opened a small window and asked them to identify…they showed him their military IDS. “He slammed the window on my arm,” complained the Emirati lieutenant.

Other cops entered their arms through the window trying to open the door from inside. He similarly hit them with the window to stop them. They sustained injuries. This stalled the arrest operation.

The sergeant went to another window and opened it so he could jump inside the room. He spotted the guard pullj ing suspicious items from a drawer, swallowing some and hiding others in his innerwear.

The guard threatened to pull out a knife and stab them in case they approached and tried to arrest him. He later opened the door in a botched bid to run away. He pushed and kicked them injuriously.

They seized hashish and suspicious pills. He pointed them to his torch containing the drug-stuffed rolls and a wallet containing an assortment of banknotes suspected to be drug pedj dling proceeds.

Cops seized suspicious money transj fer receipts. He revealed he swallowed Tramadol pills to hide them and that he had brought them from his homeland.