Wanted Individuals arrested in Akkar and the southern suburbs

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

The Army Command – Directorate of Orientation issued the following statement:

A patrol from the Intelligence Directorate seized a boat on the beach of Tel Hayat - Akkar, and arrested a Lebanese, 22 Syrians and 2 Palestinians on board, while they were trying to leave Lebanon illegally, and seized in their possession 17 gallons of gasoline.

In Hay al-Seloum - southern suburb, a patrol from the Intelligence Directorate arrested the wanted (T.A.), who is a promoter of narcotic in the area for committing the crimes: promotion and trafficking narcotics, participation in a dispute that included a shooting that killed a person earlier, attacking a hospital and assaulting security forces, along with other accomplices, in Hermel. He was seized in possession of a quantity of narcotics packed in bags and ready for sale, and a sum of money.

The arrestee and the seized cistern were turned in to the competent judicial authorities.