Ahad 05 Jan 2014 10:28 WIB

Drug smugglers arrested in Lebanon

Red: Julkifli Marbun
Illegal drugs (illustration)
Foto: Antara/Zabur Karuru
Illegal drugs (illustration)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIRUT -- The Lebanese Internal Security Forces Anti-Drug Bureau on Saturday arrested four Lebanese and two Syrians on drug dealing charges in the Bekaa region, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

The suspects were arrested during a raid on a farm in the northern Bekaa town of Younin and a garage in the Baalbek-al-Kiel region.

Security forces found an electrical captagon pill-producing machine during the raid, the agency reported, adding the machine was previously used as a candy-producing machine.

It added that other assorted equipment used for the production of captagon pills were also discovered along with 10 kilograms of locally-produced cannabis and 50,000 packaged pills that were going to be smuggled to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.