‘83 suspects arrested on drug-related charges this month’

AMMAN — Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) personnel have arrested 83 suspects involved in 57 drug cases since the beginning of February, a Public Security Department (PSD) statement released on Tuesday said. 

The agents also confiscated seven weapons and retrieved three stolen vehicles during the same period, according to the PSD.

One of the most significant cases involved arresting a suspected drug dealer during a house raid. 

AND agents also found 1kg of hashish, a half kilogramme of synthetic cannabis (locally known as joker) and 2,000 Captagon pills at the house.

The statement did not specify the location of the house. 

In another case, two suspects were arrested in Karak, some 140km south of Amman, for reportedly promoting and selling drugs in a vehicle that belonged to one of them. 

When they were arrested, they were in possession of 524 narcotic pills and an amount of hashish as well as two weapons, the PSD said.

In a separate case, AND personnel raided a house of a person allegedly involved in drug dealing. 

They found 1,467 Prazin pills and another 1,397 narcotic pills hidden in 36 boxes in the house. 

At another house in south Amman, AND agents found 2,000 narcotic pills, 2kg of hashish and half a kilogramme of joker. 

In the first six months of 2015, 5,490 drug cases were registered, 468 of which were related to trafficking, 36 related to addiction and 4,986 related to possession, a PSD official said last year.