Lebanese ISF seizes 600,000 captagon pills on border with Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) seized on Monday 600,000 captagon pills through the Masnaa border crossing between Syria and Lebanon.
The ISF announced in a statement that it seized 600,000 captagon pills weighing about 110 kilograms, hidden inside a water heater and was prepared to smuggle it out of Lebanon.
“Information was available from the Central Narcotics Control Office in the Judicial Police Unit about a network preparing an operation to smuggle drugs inside a water heater, outside Lebanese territory through the Masnaa crossing in the Bekaa,” the ISF statement said.
“Members of this office identified a member of the network, lured and arrested him in an ambush and seized the heater,” the ISF added.
The ISF pointed out that it arrested two individuals; one with the initials A. M. who was born in 2000 and is of Iraqi origin, and the other with the initials S. A., who is of Syrian origin.