Court to rule on drug parcel case

TDT | Manama

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The High Criminal Court is set to deliver its verdict on 30 September in a case in which authorities seized 850 grammes of a powdered substance and arrested two men suspected of involvement in a ‘dead mail’ drug network.

Customs officers discovered the drugs hidden inside bedcovers during an X-ray scan of incoming post. The Anti-Narcotics Directorate was alerted, and a controlled handover was arranged using the phone number on the package and a shared location pin.

A man arrived to collect the parcel and was detained. He told investigators that he was acting on someone else’s instructions to deliver the package to their family in Bahrain. Under supervision, he contacted the intended recipient and arranged a meeting at a restaurant.

At the location, two men took possession of the package and were immediately arrested by officers. A search of the first man uncovered 27 A4 sheets soaked in a substance described as CBD, while the second man was found with two boxes containing the same material. Subsequent searches of their homes revealed additional drugs and tools used for dividing the consignments.

Investigators said the operation appeared to be part of a network led by an unknown organiser, with the two men responsible for receiving, storing, portioning, and passing on the drugs via ‘dead mail’. During questioning, the second man admitted importing and selling the drugs, receiving them from the first man and distributing them under prior instructions. The first man said he collected parcels and left them in pre-arranged locations on the organiser’s orders.

Phone checks revealed messages, videos, and images of money transfers on the second man’s device, while the first man’s search history included queries about empty perfume bottles in Bahrain and CBD oil.

Both men, along with an unidentified person, were charged with importing and possessing narcotic and psychotropic substances with intent to trade. They remain in custody pending the court’s ruling.