11 of 14 escapees arrested
Taxi driver caught drunk
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 27: A top-level security source said police have arrested 11 of the 14 Iranians who had escaped from the Coast Guard custody after breaking a window, reports Al-Kuwaitiah daily.
According to security sources two infiltrators were arrested in Abu Halifa, one in AlQurain, the fourth in Riqqa and seven others in different places.
Police are looking for the other two and an Afghan who are still at large. Cabbie held drunk: Police arrested a taxi driver for consuming alcohol, reports Alam Alyawm daily.
He was taken into custody at a checkpoint in Khairan when police got the smell of alcohol while checking his documents.
Police then checked his vehicle and seized a bottle of locally-manufactured alcohol and two drug pills.
He has been handed over to the authorities. Liquor peddler caught: Police have arrested an Arab man for trading in alcohol, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
The daily quoting security sources said police acting on information put the man under surveillance and caught him red-handed while selling three bottles of imported alcohol to a police agent.
The booze and the suspect have been handed over to the authorities. Drugs seized: Police have arrested an unidentified person for possessing and consuming drugs, reports Alam Alyawm daily.
The arrest came when passersby called the Operations Department of the Ministry of Interior when they saw the man on the floor of a commercial complex.
Police rushed the man to the Farwaniya Hospital and a report showed he was under the influence of drugs.
Police have reportedly seized from the man a finger of hashish, four sachets of heroin and 50 narcotic pills. Is he a spy?: Police are looking for an unidentified person for possessing a special listening device, the type used by spies in addition to an encrypted wireless device and various types of drugs, reports Al-Rai daily.
A security source said the suspect abandoned his vehicle near a petrol station in Rabiya and an employee of the station called the Operations Department of the Interior Ministry when he saw the car parked in the area for two days.
According to security sources, the car carried a forged number plate. The car was also reported stolen by its owner.
The State Security police have been informed about the incident. Currencies stolen: Police are looking for an unidentified burglar who allegedly broke into the home of a retired Kuwaiti man and escaped with money — KD 3,000 and 2,700 Saudi riyals — and jewelry worth KD 9,000, reports Al-Rai daily.
In his complaint the man said the valuables were inside the safe. Skull identified: When police received information about a skull which was seen in an open ground opposite the Fahaheel Sports Club, personnel from the Forensics department rushed to the spot and referred the skull to the lab, reports Al-Qabas daily.
Initial examination shows the skulls belongs to an unidentified person who died in 1990 during the Iraqi invasion of the country.