Thursday, Jun 14, 2012
Dubai: A policeman was sentenced to ten years in jail for possessing 11 grams of drugs that he intended to transport to an unknown person.
The Dubai Court of First Instance also fined the 25-year-old Emirati policeman, K.I., Dh50,000 for possessing 11 grams of different kinds of drugs which he intended to transport to someone that remained unidentified in prosecution records.
“The drugs that were found in the defendant’s possession will be confiscated,” said Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad in courtroom 3.
According to the accusation sheet, the accused possessed drugs, which he was caught carrying in the parking lot of Dubai Police’s Punitive and Correctional Establishments.
An Emirati anti-narcotics first lieutenant quoted K.I. admitting that a detainee involved in sodomy case called him from a detention centre and asked him to pick the drugs from under a signpost on Dubai Bypass Road.
The defendant dismissed his accusation and pleaded innocent.
Drugs Prosecution accused K.I. of possessing heroin, diazepam and venoparpetal drugs for transportation purposes. The first lieutenant said an informant alarmed the anti-narcotics police that K.I. possessed drugs and was consuming it.
“The suspect lives in Mizher. We obtained prosecutors’ permission then detained him in the parking lot of the Establishments. No drugs were found in his possession. However he claimed to us that three days earlier A.A. [a sodomy suspect detained in Al Hibab Police Station], asked him over the phone to pick a bag from under a radar warning signpost on Dubai Bypass Road.
“He said when he opened the bag, he recognised that it contained two boxes of heroin… two days later A.A. asked him over the phone to drop one of the boxes under a lamppost in Nad Al Hamr. He admitted that he did what he was asked to do and buried the second box behind the fence of his house. “We dug out the box that contained heroin from behind his house,” the first lieutenant claimed.
A Yemeni anti-narcotics policeman confirmed his colleague’s statement.
The primary judgement remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
By bassam zaza Legal and court ?correspondent
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