‘Suspects attempt to smuggle drugs in toffees package’

AMMAN — Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) personnel have foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs that were hidden in a package of sweets planned to be shipped out of the Kingdom, the Public Security Department (PSD said on Sunday.

AND personnel tracked the package that was supposed to contain toffees but a thorough inspection revealed 30,000 narcotic pills hidden inside, according to a PSD statement.

Following an investigation, two suspects were monitored and their house was raided; they were arrested along with an accomplice wanted for a case of attempted murder, and the whole case was referred to the State Security Court prosecutor, the statement said.  

Drug traffickers use various ways to smuggle narcotics outside the Kingdom. 

So far this year, AND agents have foiled several attempts to smuggle drugs hidden inside items that would not look suspicious to authorities. 

Last month, AND officers aborted two attempts to smuggle half-a-million Captagon pills that were hidden in large marble blocks and children’s beds. 

In April, AND agents arrested a suspect in the northern region of the Kingdom for allegedly hiding 37,000 Captagon pills inside olives that he intended to smuggle to a neighbouring country.

The suspect reportedly extracted the seeds of thousands of olives and replaced them with Captagon pills wrapped in small plastic bags, AND said.