(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A student and a restaurant manager have each been sentenced to life in prison for possessing marijuana which they intended to sell.
The 23-year-old Australian student, F.B., and the 34-year-old British manager, M.A., were arrested in December last year on the charge of possessing marijuana for trafficking.
A Singaporean company manager, A.R., 28, has been sentenced to five years in prison in the same case and ordered to pay a fine of Dh20,000 for facilitating the use of drugs by F.B. The Court of First Instance ordered that all of them be deported after serving their time in prison.
According to prosecution records, 4.1 grams of marijuana were seized from F.B. which he possessed for selling and 0.5 gram which he possessed for his own personal use. The urine sample of all defendants contained traces of hashish as per the Crime Lab reports.
A police major in the Anti-Narcotics Department of the Dubai Police said they received reliable information that F.B. was about to sell a quantity of drugs for Dh2,000 to one of their informants in Al Rafaa area.
F.B. was arrested around 11.15pm on December 11 last year after he sold the drugs to the police informant in a parking lot near a hotel apartment building in Al Rafaa. He voluntarily admitted that he sold it for Dh2,000.
He told the police that he got the drugs from the other two defendants. The police raided their flat around 1.30am on December 12.
When the police asked A.R. from where he got the drugs, M.A. intervened and said he smuggled it when he entered the UAE. Two quantities of marijuana weighing one gram and 0.5 gram were seized from A.R. and M.A. The verdict can be appealed within 15 days.
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