January 2021
2 reports. Seizures 1 · Sentences 1
Police find a four-plant cannabis grow in a Tap Seac flat
Judiciary Police arrested a 28-year-old Taiwanese man and a 22-year-old local man after finding four cannabis plants, a portable greenhouse, a heating lamp, seeds and growing equipment in a rented flat near Tap Seac. The pair had met a year earlier, and police said they believed the plants were grown for sale. Officers came across the operation while investigating another drug case.
Five years for a suitcase of hashish at Doha airport
A man whose suitcase was picked out by a scanner at Hamad International Airport was sentenced to five years in prison, a fine of 300,000 riyals and deportation. He said a friend at home, who had promised him a job in Qatar and paid for his ticket, had given him the case to deliver.