The Department of Drug Control in the Syrian Ministry of the Interior announced today, Saturday, the arrest of the leader of a drug smuggling network, and the seizure of additional quantities of hashish and captagon in the Homs district in the center of the country.
The administration explained in an official announcement that its branch in Homs was able to identify the leader of the network and arrest him in a controlled ambush, in which 120,000 captagon pills and 9 kg of hashish were caught in his possession, and he and the seized items were referred to the competent justice system.
These movements come as a continuation of a security operation that was carried out last May, which resulted in the arrest of two members of the network and the thwarting of an attempt to smuggle 200,000 Captagon bullets that came from Lebanese territory.