Saudi police have seized a citizen as he tried to smuggle drugs in a car which belongs to a government department where he works, the Saudi Arabic language daily Okaz reported on Sunday.

Police suspected the behavior of the driver as he tried to pass through their checkpoint near the western town of Madina, the paper said.

“They stopped him and searched the car…they found around three kg of hashish…he confessed that he intended to distribute the drugs in Madina,” Okaz said without specifying the government department.