Man jailed, fined for using drugs inside vehicle
DUBAI: The Dubai Criminal Court jailed a GCC national for 7 years and fined him Dhs200,000 on charges of consuming various narcotics and psychotropic substances inside his vehicle.
The details date back to September 2023, when information was received by the General Department of Narcotics Control at Dubai Police, alerting that the suspect, who had a criminal record, was in possession of narcotic substances which he used inside his vehicle in Nad Al Hamar area in Dubai.
A policeman reported that a team from the competent department and a support patrol headed to the suspect’s location, after obtaining the prosecution’s permit, where the policeman saw the suspect inside his vehicle.
After searching him, teams found various narcotic substances in his possession, so he was arrested.
A large number of psychotropic pills and narcotics were also found inside his vehicle, so he was taken to the General Department for Narcotics Control, where the forensic laboratory report proved that his sample contained traces of the use of narcotics and psychotropic substances.
The report of the materials seized in the possession of the suspect proved that they were psychotropic substances weighing more than 150 grammes.
On being questioned, the suspect admitted that the drugs seized with him belonged to him, and that they were all for personal use.
Recently, the Dubai Criminal Court imprisoned two Arabs for 7 years and ordered their deportation from the country after serving their sentence.
The court also fined each of them Dhs200,000 after being convicted of bringing, possessing, and abusing 1,000 pills of psychotropic substances.
The details date back to December 2023, when an inspector at Dubai International Airport discovered 100 strips containing 1,000 psychotropic pills inside the bag of a visitor coming from his home country. The inspector reported that he suspected the visitor’s bag, and upon searching it, he found a large number of psychotropic pills inside it. The suspect reported that he had received the seized items from a person in his home country to deliver to a compatriot residing in the country.