Oman

Three expats held for peddling drugs in Muscat

 
Muscat: The Directorate General of Combating drugs and Psychotropic Substances arrested two expatriates while they were burying narcotic substances on a beach in the Governorate of Muscat in an attempt to sell them to a drug dealer indirectly through telephone communication.

A quantity of morphine and crystal was seized in their possession.

In another case, the police arrested an expatriate who followed the same criminal method in concealing a quantity of crystal and hashish narcotics.

Legal measures are being taken against the accused.