Blacksmith to Spend Life in Prison for Drug Trafficking.

Summary: DUBAI u A 30-year-old blacksmith will spend his life in prison after the Court of First Instance on Wednesday found him guilty of drug trafficking and abuse. He will be deported after serving C his term.

Acting on a tip-off, the Anti-Narcotics Unit of Dubai Police nabbed the man on January 20 night near a supermarket in Jebel Ali and recovered 194.73 grams of marijuana from his possession.

"We nabbed him in Jebel Ali. After searching him we found two small bags hidden in his underwear.

There were paper rolls containing marijuana inside the bags," a police lieutenant stated.

The officer said that the Indian admitted to possessing the marijuana for trafficking. "He claimed he got it from a relative who had left the UAE," C he added.

The officer then took him to the police department to get a sample of his urine tested at the laboratory of the Criminal Evidence Department. AaAa

A policeman told the the prosecution that he was assigned by the lieutenant to search the place of the defendant in Jebel Ali.

"When we raided his room in the labour accommodation the following day we found that it had many beds and he shared it with other men," the policeman said. He added that more than 70 rolls of marijuana were found in his drawers and under his bed sheet. Marijuana was also found in another bag that was in one of the Aa drawers.

The urine sample of the defendant showed traces of hashish.

Jeweller on Trial for Stealing Gold

A jeweller stole gold worth Dh60,000 from his Jebel Ali company and tried to sell it to a colleague, a court heard.

The 25-year-old Indian jeweller's case was brought before the Court of First Instance on Wednesday.

The colleague, who is also a jeweller, told the police that the defendant offered to sell him three pieces of gold weighing 600gms on August 9.

"He claimed that he got the gold from one of his friends. I had suspicions so I called our boss who runs the jewellery store and told him about what happened," the colleague alleged.

After reporting about what the defendant did, a meeting was arranged.

"In the meeting, the manager asked him, the defendant, how he got the gold. He admitted to stealing it from the company," the defendant's colleague said.

The Public Prosecution has seized the stolen gold.

Man Jailed, Wife Acquitted in eC Hashish Case

A man was on Wednesday sentenced to five years in prison and fined Dh20,000 after the Court of First Instance found him guilty of possessing and using hashish as well as supplying narcotics to others.

He will be deported after completion of his term.

However, his wife was acquitted of similar charges.

According to court records, the Egyptian man, who was arrested in Raffa area, on June 7, admitted to the police that he used hashish two days prior to his arrest and alleged that his wife had brought it from Egypt.

He also led the police team to his apartment in Ajman, where 39.15 grams of hashish was recovered.

The woman confessed that she had smuggled the drug through the Dubai International Airport by concealing it under her clothes.

Woman Gets Three Years for eC Forgery, Fraud

A woman was on Wednesday sentenced to three years in prison after the Court of First Instance found her guilty of fraud and forgery.

According to court records, the woman cheated an elderly man by getting his thumb impression on three C visa applications.

The 35-year-old Emirati woman misled the 66-year-old illiterate man by telling him that the applications were for obtaining social and C financial assistance.

The complainant stated that he realised that he had been cheated when he went to the Immigration office to apply for a housemaid's visa on December 22, 2008.

"I was told that there were already three workers on my sponsorship. I was shocked because I had not sponsored anybody at the time."

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