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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests drug gang; seizes over 2mn Captagon pills

Date of incident: 
June 23, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

The ISF were made aware of a warehouse belonging to a Syrian national identified as A.K., born in 1976, that housed drugs in Mount Lebanon's Khaldeh two weeks ago.
The ISF raided the home of A.K. after receiving information that he had drugs hidden there. They seized 400 kilograms of hashish and 1,800,000 Captagon pills. His wife, a Lebanese identified as A.Ch. and born in 1988, was also arrested. She reportedly confessed to participating in her husband's gang through packaging and trafficking the drugs.

During the investigation, the ISF located another warehouse in Boushrieh, owned by a Syrian national, identified as M.Z., born in 1974.

Primary category: 
Raid
Secondary Category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Power & governance conflicts
Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.