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. 

By Ahmad Othman