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Sharjah: Nine members of a drug trafficking gang have been arrested in a well-planned operation dubbed Flash Power, Sharjah Police announced on Tuesday. The operation managed to net more than a million narcotic tablets after the gang was arrested within 12 hours of receiving a tip-off. According to Sharjah Police, Flash Power resulted in the arrest of nine Asians and the seizure of one million tablets of the drug “Senex” worth Dh15 million. Lt Col Majid Al Asem, Director of the Department of Drug Enforcement, said that the department had received a tip-off about an organised gang which po...

9 men nabbed for trying to sell over a million narcotic pills in UAE Photo courtesy: Twitter The Sharjah Police identified the suspects in 12 hours. A gang of nine Asian men who were planning to sell more than a million narcotic pills in the country had been arrested in Sharjah. In an operation called ‘Lightning Force’, the group was caught with a massive haul of the controlled anti-anxiety drug Xanax that was worth more than Dh15 million, the Sharjah Police said. 15 Lt-Col Majed Al Asam, director of the Sharjah Police’s anti-narcotics department, said the operation was carried...