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Two jailed for drug dealing

By Rana Husseini - Dec 18,2017 - Last updated at Dec 18,2017

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a May State Security Court (SSC) ruling handing down two men reduced sentences after convicting them of possessing and selling illegal narcotics in March 2016.

The SSC sentenced one defendant to five years in prison and the second to 15 years after convicting them of possessing illegal narcotics with the intent to sell.

However, the SSC decided to reduce both defendants’ sentences to half to “give them a second chance in life”.

Court papers said the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) received a tip-off that the defendants possessed illegal narcotics and were storing them in a house in Muwaqar in preparation for selling them.

On March 16, the AND personnel raided the apartment and arrested the two defendants along with other men following “fierce resistance by the people who were in the house”, the court documents added.

“AND agents found stashes of hashish and captagon pills as well as a machinegun,” the court said.

The defendants had contested the SSC ruling arguing through their lawyer that “the prosecutor failed to provide solid evidence to implicate his clients and that the court depended on witnesses’ contradictory statements”.

However, the Court of Cassation ruled that the SSC proceedings were correct and the defendants deserved the punishment they received.

 

The higher court comprised judges Mohammad Ibrahim, Naji Zubi, Daoud Tubeileh, Mohammad Tarawneh and Mohammad Beirudi.

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