- Five-member gang arrested, 270 kg of hashish and an automatic firearm seized.
- 22 dealers apprehended in 13 related cases, with large quantities of drugs confiscated nationwide.
Jordan’s Public Security Directorate announced that its Anti-Narcotics Department successfully dismantled a regional drug trafficking gang composed of five individuals, seizing 270 kilograms of hashish and an automatic firearm.
According to the spokesperson for the Public Security Directorate, the department has been actively pursuing drug trafficking, distribution, and smuggling cases. In the past few days alone, authorities handled 14 significant cases, including the dismantling of the five-person gang.
Investigators traced the gang’s activities to cooperation between local and foreign nationals, identifying three foreign individuals who smuggled large quantities of hashish into the kingdom and delivered them to two Jordanian accomplices. All five suspects were arrested, and the drugs and firearm were recovered during coordinated raids.
In addition to this major bust, the Anti-Narcotics Department conducted 13 other notable operations, arresting 22 dealers and distributors, including two classified as dangerous, while confiscating substantial quantities of drugs across multiple regions:
- 7 kilos of hashish and 0.5 kg of crystal meth in Ramtha.
- 8,000 pills in Al-Ruwaished.
- 18,000 pills in Central Badia.
- 9 kilos of hashish in Ma’an.
- 1 kg of cocaine and 12 kilos of hashish in Madaba and south of the capital.
- 14,000 pills and 24 kilos of hashish in northern Amman.
- 52 kilos of hashish and 5,000 pills across northern and southern Amman.
- 17 kilos of hashish and 5,000 pills in Central Badia and Zarqa.
- 6 kilos of hashish in Aqaba among individuals heading to the capital.
The spokesperson emphasized that the Anti-Narcotics Department will continue its efforts to combat all forms of drug trafficking and distribution, aiming to curb the smuggling networks and reduce the prevalence of narcotics across the kingdom.
