Sniffer dogs ‘helped cops to arrest drug smugglers’

Police dogs helped the Bahrain Customs team to arrest two Gulf nationals who hid one kg of hashish in the dashboard of their car, in an attempt to smuggle it into the Kingdom. This was revealed on Sunday, during the trial of both men before the High Criminal Court, which adjourned the case to July 8, 2019.

Court documents showed that the men were crossing the Causeway into Bahrain when the arrests were made. Initially, the officers didn’t find anything when they searched both men and inspected the car. However, their suspicious behavior and the dogs’ continuous barking led to a thorough search.

When allowed inside the car, the dog led the officers to the drugs which was “professionally” hidden behind the control keys of the car’s air-conditioner, the Prosecutors said. Both men were referred to the Public Prosecution, which interrogated them and ordered to be detained.

In the interrogation, the first defendant denied that the confiscated drugs belonged to him, claiming that he only was delivering it to a person here in the Kingdom, whom he had met at a coffee shop here and offered him BD300 to transport a plastic bag for him, under the condition that he wouldn’t open it.

The first defendant told the interrogators that he accepted the offer and that he was handed over the bag in Saudi Arabia by an unknown person.