Dubai, January 11: Dubai police seized nearly 5.8 kg of crystal drugs and 642 gm of heroin in separate raids involving the first major drug hauls in the cosmopolitan city in 2012, security sources have said.
Acting on a tip off, anti drug squads raided a room at a hotel in Nayef street and seized a man who possessed the 4.8 kg of Methamphetamine, known as crystal. The 30-year-old man, identified as GA, had come to the UAE from an Asian country with the intention of selling the drugs.
In another operation, a police detective posing as a customer contacted a man believed to be trying to sell heroin and told him he wanted to buy it.
They agreed to meet in Hor Al Anz area, where his accomplice brought the heroin in a plastic bag and handed it over to the disguised cop.
An anti-drug unit watching the operation then rushed to the man and arrested him after he tried to resist. His friend was also arrested in the same area.
The two claimed that they had received the 63 heroin capsules from an unknown person in the UAE after a phone call from a dealer abroad.
-Agencies