Electronic bracelets to keep track of persons under house arrest

KUWAIT: The public prosecution is preparing a list of 17 prisoners who were approved to complete their jail sentences at their homes wearing electronic bracelets, Al-Anbaa Arabic daily reported. A source quoted in the report said the beneficiaries are of different nationalities - all males - who were sentenced for less than three years for beating, breach of trust and other offenses that do not qualify as dangerous criminal offenses. The source said the list is the start of the e-bracelet project, and beneficiaries were selected based on certain criteria such as good behavior, adding the success of this trial will lead to approving other names. The prisoner will be monitored in the house of his choice, and if he leaves, he will be taken back to prison.

Ex-convict rearrested

A man who was recently released from the central prison was arrested after he was caught breaking the traffic law. Police arrested the citizen in his 30s for driving in the wrong way. When his car was searched, drugs and cash were found. Police patrols noticed two vehicles being driven in the wrong way in Kaifan. The suspect was arrested after he uttered strange and incomprehensible words. He then told the police he was recently released from prison and did not want any problems, and handed them a bag of drugs. Police searched the second car, which was driven by a woman, and found 37 bags of a white substance, three bags containing an herbal material and four bags containing a dark material. An unused joint was also found along with six white tablets, two yellow tablets and two pink tablets. The woman was also arrested.

Residency violators

Residency affairs detectives arrested a man for running a bogus domestic help office. Detectives received information about the office which sheltered residency law violators and absconders and employed them on a temporary basis. Ten men and women were arrested, including those without IDs and some with article 20 visas who did not work for their sponsors. One woman was referred to criminal detectives for having a child out of wedlock. Residency affairs stats show that 20 bogus offices have been busted and 60 residency violators arrested.

KD 66,000 gone

A man told police he gave a person some money but he did not return it. He said he gave the suspect KD 66,000 to buy medical equipment for a project. The citizen said he attempted to call the man who took the money several times to no avail, and this is what prompted him to file a complaint.