{"id":2381,"date":"2025-02-18T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2025-02-18T06:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:45:24","slug":"sheikh-ministry-official-and-doctor-arrested-for-drug-trafficking-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/2025\/02\/18\/sheikh-ministry-official-and-doctor-arrested-for-drug-trafficking-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh, Ministry Official, and Doctor Arrested for Drug Trafficking in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwaiti authorities have arrested three citizens\u2014a member of the ruling family, a high-ranking official in a ministry, and a doctor from the Ministry of Health\u2014on charges of drug trafficking. The operation, led by the General Department of Drug Control under Major General Hamed Al-Dawas and Brigadier General Mohammed Qabazard, resulted in the seizure of half a kilogram of narcotics and a sensitive scale.<\/p><p>The arrests followed a covert investigation in South Surra, where detectives tracked a drug dealer based on information from previously arrested addicts. The suspect, a ministry leader, was caught in a sting operation and confessed to obtaining drugs from a doctor. Upon arresting the doctor, authorities found heroin and marijuana at his residence. Further investigations led to the arrest of a sheikh in Rumaithiya, where officers seized additional drugs.<\/p><p>All three suspects have been referred to the Public Prosecution and are facing charges of drug trafficking. They have been detained pending further investigation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwaiti authorities have arrested three citizens\u2014a member of the ruling family, a high-ranking official in a ministry, and a doctor from the Ministry of Health\u2014on charges of drug trafficking. The operation, led by the General Department of Drug Control under Major General Hamed Al-Dawas and Brigadier General Mohammed Qabazard, resulted in the seizure of half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kuwait-en"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}