Gambler sent to jail for 3 months
DUBAI: The Dubai Criminal Court sent an Asian for 3 months behind bars, fined him Dhs100,000, and ordered his deportation from the country ater serving his sentence, for being convicted of organising a gambling game in Naif area in Dubai.
A police patrol, using a drone, detected the suspect while it was exploring the jurisdiction area.
The details of the case date back to December 2022, when drone cameras monitored a number of Asians gathering around a person on a street in Naif area.
A policeman stated that he alerted a police patrol in the area of what the cameras monitored, so the patrol rushed to the place and arrested the suspect who was running a gambling game and seized money and gambling tools from him.
The policeman added in his testimony that the suspect confessed that he had organised a gambling game on the public road. He also confessed that the tools seized belonged to him, and that he obtained the money seized in his possession from organising the game.
The court clarified that the case papers included evidence that the suspect managed and organised a gambling game in an open public place, ater he prepared gambling tools, a cup containing amounts of money, a piece of cloth, and dice.
The court added that the suspect’s denial in court was intended to evade punishment, especially ater he confessed to the charges in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, besides the testimony of one of the witnesses and what was included in the arrest report.
Separately, the Dubai Misdemeanour Court sentenced a Gulf citizen to three months in jail for stealing a vehicle parked in front of a villa in Al Quoz area in Dubai in collaboration with others, who are still at large.
The defendant drove the vehicle for several days before leaving it in Sharjah Industrial Area due to an engine malfunction.
The case dated back to October last year when an Arab filed a complaint in which he stated that his vehicle parked on the opposite side of his villa in Al Quoz area had been stolen.