Nasr City housewife referred for trial over hashish and ice trafficking
The Nasr City prosecution referred a housewife to criminal trial for trafficking in hashish and ice in the Second Nasr City police district. She was also charged with holding 5,000 Egyptian pounds said to be drug proceeds and a mobile phone used in the trade.
🇪🇬 Second Nasr City police district, Nasr City, Cairo · Egypt
The Nasr City prosecution ordered a housewife referred to criminal trial for
trafficking in the narcoticshashish and ice within the Second Nasr City police
district.[1][2]The referral order said the accused, identified as Maha A.,
possessed hashish and ice, both listed in the schedules attached to the
drug-control law, with intent to traffic outside legally authorized
circumstances.[1][2]
Prosecutors said she held 5,000 Egyptian pounds said to be proceeds of the
activity, alongside a mobile phone she used to contact customers and facilitate
sales and promotion.[1][2]The referral added that she made the criminal activity
a means of unlawful profit by holding the drugs to promote and distribute them
to users, using her residential area and the police-district area as the scene
of the activity.[1][2]The case began when Second Nasr City detectives received
information, confirmed by investigations, that a housewife was trafficking
narcotics from a room in the district, and the required inquiries confirmed it.[1][2]A second account also places the 5,000 Egyptian pounds and the mobile phone
she used to contact customers among the charges the prosecution attached to her
referral.[3]
After procedures were regularized and prosecution permission was obtained, a
security force from the district detectives arrested the accused, recorded the
incident, and the prosecution took over the investigation.[1][2]
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The entrance of the Nasr City prosecution office, where the referral order was issued. Photo: جريدة الدستورPhoto details
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