Laamu drug kingpin sentenced to 25 years imprisonment
17 Nov 2011, 4:47 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a man identified by the police as one of the top drug dealers in the Maldives to 25 year imprisonment for illegal trade of narcotics, with an additional five years for possessing an illegal narcotic without a prescription.
The Criminal Court identified the person as Hassan Yousuf, Mathimaradhoo ward of Gan in Laamu Atoll.
The court saidthat according to police officers that attended the scene to arrest Yousuf, he was holding a cigarette pack in his hand when he saw the officers and he threw the pack away.
When police picked up the cigarette pack and searched it, they found two grams of heroin inside.
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