2 Million Captagon Pills Seized in Jounieh

Internal Security Forces arrested on Monday two suspects in the Jounieh region on drug smuggling charges, the ISF general directorate announced on Tuesday.

It said that it seized in their possession over two million Captagon pills, weighing 340 kilograms.

An ISF patrol raided an apartment in the Haret Sakhr neighborhood in Jounieh, north of Lebanon, where it arrested the suspects.

It identified them as Lebanese S.G. and Syrian S.H.

Investigations are underway with them to reveal the identities of the rest of the drug smuggling gang.

Last week, customs agents arrested the owner of a furniture factory and the members of a gang that was plotting to smuggle around a million Captagon pills to a Gulf country.

Earlier that week, media reports had said that a large quantity of Captagon and drugs was seized at a wood factory in the Jbeil town of Hbaline.

M.T.

Y.R.