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AMMAN — The State Security Court (SSC) on Sunday sentenced a man to death after convicting him of murdering three Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) officers during a raid in Amman in March 2026.
The court unanimously declared the defendant guilty of three counts of murdering three officers while on duty on March 18 and handed him the maximum punishment of death, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
Court documents said that the three deceased officers were part of an AND force that was dispatched to arrest the defendant in an eastern Amman suburb.
The minute the arresting force entered the premises, the suspect opened fire, killing three officers at the scene, court papers said.
A fourth AND officer was also injured during the raid and was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, the court papers stated.
The suspect was eventually controlled and arrested by other officers during the raid, according to the court documents.
The arresting force seized three firearms, illegal pills, 600 grammes of Hashish, a small amount of Crystal Meth and an undisclosed amount of Marijuana during the raid, according to a statement by the Public Security Directorate (PSD) that was released shortly following the shooting incident.
The deceased officers were identified as First Lt. Murad Mawajdeh, Sergeant Khaldoun Ruqeb and Corporal Subhi Deweikat, according to the PSD statement.
Sunday’s death sentence will automatically be reviewed by the Court of Cassation within the next 30 days.
