'13 suspected drug dealers, addicts detained in Sahab raids'

AMMAN — The Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) on Tuesday announced the arrest of 13 suspected drug dealers and addicts in the capital.

AND agents arrested the 13 suspects, including a Syrian, during consecutive raids on nine houses in Sahab that lasted three hours, a senior AND official said.

“No one was injured in any of the raids that started at around 6am on Monday,” the official told The Jordan Times.

Many of the suspects were asleep, “which facilitated our operation and prevented any injuries or resistance on their part”, the official added.

AND agents are still searching for two suspects who own two of the homes in Sahab and were not there during the raids, according to the AND official.

The raids resulted in the confiscation of guns, automatic rifles, money earned from illicit drug transactions and various illegal narcotics, according to a statement issued by the Public Security Department (PSD). The suspects were referred to the State Security Court prosecutor for further questioning, according to the PSD statement.

Speaking at a lecture in September, Deputy PSD Director for Criminal Investigation Affairs Maj. Gen. Tahsin Momani said 5,490 drug cases were registered in the first six months of 2015, 468 of which were related to trafficking, 36 to addiction and 4,986 to possession.