KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: Two Bangladeshi expatriates were arrested for the possession and sale of marijuana.
Acting on a tip-off, Director-General of the Anti-Drug Department Brigadier Sheikh Ahmad Al-Khalifa formed a team of officials to arrest one of the expatriates, who was found to be selling the drug in Salwa. They managed to lure him into selling them 50 grams of marijuana for KD 100 and arrested him during a buy-bust operation.
The officials then raided his flat and found 200 grams of the drug in his possession. He confessed to his crime and guided the officials to the house of his compatriot, who was also involved in the trade. The second suspect was duly arrested and 500 grams of marijuana was seized from his apartment in Mangaf.
Both the arrested persons were referred along with the confiscated drugs to the authorities for further action. A case was registered.
Meanwhile,  security operatives from Farwaniya Directorate managed to arrest a Bangladeshi expatriate in possession of 20 bottles of liquor, which he intended to sell in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh.
A security source said police received information about an Asian expatriate who sold liquor to compatriots in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh. Acting on the information, a detective managed to reach a deal with the suspect to buy liquor for an unspecified amount of money. He was arrested by police during delivery of the contraband.
During interrogation, the suspect admitted to receiving liquor from a factory in Bneid Al-Gar, and he has since been referred to the General Drugs Control Department, along with the seized items for further investigation.

Arab expat gets 10 year : The Criminal Court sentenced an Arab man, identified only as Mohamed S., to 10 years in jail in absentia to be followed by deportation for kidnapping and raping an Indonesian housemaid.
Speaking to the Arab Times after the issuance of the verdict, the lawyer for the victim, Attorney Mohamed Khuraibet, expressed satisfaction over the ruling, pointing out the suspect disregarded his client’s tearful plea for him to leave her.
During a previous session, Khuraibet told the court the suspect had been cruel to the victim and caused her enormous pain. He added the suspect had repeated his crime twice, forgetting God’s ability to discover the atrocious act.
Case files indicate on Dec 25, 2008, the victim left her sponsor’s flat to call her family in Indonesia at an Internet café. Seeing the woman at the building where he lived, the suspect held her by force and took her to his flat on the fourth floor where he raped her and then let her go.
On Feb 4, 2009, the victim was on her way to the Internet café again when the suspect saw her. He again raped her. When he finished, she took advantage of the situation as he was busy and picked up his mobile phone to dial her number and then she left the suspect’s phone.
The victim then reported the incident to her embassy. A case was filed against the suspect, who suddenly disappeared, so he was tried and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in absentia.
The session was presided over by Judge Adel Al-Saqer.