‘122 suspected drug dealers arrested in March’

AMMAN — Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) personnel arrested 122 suspects in drug dealing cases during the second half of March, a Public Security Department (PSD) statement said on Saturday.

AND confiscated 17kg of hashish, 9kg of synthetic cannabis (locally known as “joker”), 13,000 Captagon pills, and 105,000 illegal narcotic pills and medical products, in addition to 21 firearms and ammunition.

One of the major cases was a raid on a suspected dealer’s house in Zarqa, who was arrested with possession of 11kg of hashish. AND agents also arrested a suspect in Sahab, who was in possession of 80,000 narcotic pills.