Four caught smuggling 50kgs of heroin

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance awarded four Pakistanis 10 years in jail each for possessing more than 50kgs of heroin.
 
The convicts who were identified as JZH, 27, mechanic; ASF, 30, visitor; MHM, 40, painter; AMJ, 22, driver were also ordered to pay Dh50,000 each and are to be deported after serving their jail terms.
 
According to the records, Major Khalid Ali testified that police received a tip-off about JZH who works in the Fruits and Vegetable market in Al Weer. He was about to receive a large quantity of drugs and that he had plans to store and then hand over to an African.
 
Police investigated the authenticity of the information and then obtained a permission from the prosecution to arrest the accused. On April 5, at around 6.40,  police trapped that the accused who was in a car with two other people in the car.
 
“JZH and another man left the car and stepped towards fruits trucks. The two met with a third person in front of a truck and talked to him. Then the car was moved by the third accused where the three were standing near the wholesale shops. They stayed there until a car came at 8.30pm. They started unloading orange boxes from a container and loading them into the pickup. As they finished, police raided the four and arrested them and confiscated 657 plastic sacks that contained 52Kgs of heroine hidden in the orange boxes,” he testified.
 
Other police officer repeated similar testimonies.
 
JZH, confessed before the police that he knew that heroin was hidden in the boxes and he was supposed to hand them over to the Nigerian, who would transport the drugs to another place.

He confessed that he had received a phone call from a Pakistani woman who told him that he should receive a large quantity of heroin from the Fruits and Vegetable market in Dubai and hand it to an African. He also confessed that he received a call from the African and met him in Sharjah three days before.
 
The African paid him Dh5,600 for the operation.