Driver Arrested for Smuggling Drugs in Minivan Engine
The anti-drug unit of judicial police has arrested a Lebanese man for smuggling around half a kilogram of drugs in his minivan in the eastern city of Zahle, the Internal Security Forces announced Monday.
A communique issued by the ISF General Command said the unit monitored the passenger van after receiving information that he was smuggling drugs from the Bekaa town al-Hamoudiyeh to Beirut.
It stopped the vehicle's 28-year-old driver, who was identified with his initials as H.H., at the so-called Zahle bridge, the communique said.
The officers found 437 grams of drugs stashed in small nylon bags and hidden in the engine's air filter, it said.
The bags contained 210 grams of heroin and cocaine and 227 grams of hashish, ISF added.
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