Drug smuggling bid foiled, four arrested

Over 3000 kg ice, 15 ecstasy pills recovered

ABBOTTABAD:

Police on Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle Ice and arrested four suspects.

They also recovered 3.106 kilograms of ice and 15 ecstasy pills from their possession. Police also registered a case against them.

On the instructions of District Police Officer (DPO) Sajjad Khan, Abbottabad police started a massive drive against drug dealers and arrested a four-member inter-provincial gang that was involved in providing ice drug and ecstasy pills to boys and girls in schools, colleges and universities of the district.

Addressing a press conference, the DPO said initially on August 6, police arrested the accused Mobin Shah, a resident of Rustam, Mardan, and seized six ecstasy pills and 437 grams of ice drug from his custody. On the disclosure of the arrested accused Mobin, Abbottabad police nabbed Saqib Ali, a resident of Mansehra, who was a part of the drug dealer gang, he added.

Khan further said that police also recovered four ecstasy pills and 480 grams of ice from their possession, while Sanaullah, a resident of Phulra Mansehra, was arrested along with four ecstasy pills.

The DPO said that by widening the scope of the investigation against the accused, the investigation was carried forward very carefully and on the identification, more than 615 grams of ice were recovered from Mubin Shah, 595 grams of ice from Saqib and 484 grams of ice from Sanaullah.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, August 11^th, 2022.