BEIRUT: Internal Security Forces arrested eight drug dealers in Mount Lebanon over the weekend after an investigative reality TV show revealed the identities and locations of the country’s most notorious drug lords.
Policemen raided Saturday the residences of two infamous drug dealers from the Zeaiter family in Dikwaneh and Fanar, according to an ISF statement released Monday.
The drug dealers themselves were not found in the two separate homes, but police arrested employees who were selling narcotics on their behalf.
A shootout erupted between police and area residents in Dikwaneh during the raids but the statement did not report any casualties.
As part of their crackdown on the sale of narcotics, police arrested five Syrians, an Egyptian and two Lebanese nationals who were selling drugs on behalf of the two members of the Zeaiter family.
The ISF also seized 613 grams of cocaine, 575 grams of cannabis, 2,850 grams of salvia, 220 grams of marijuana and 117 ecstasy pills.
The move comes more than a week after the latest episode of LBCI’s Hakee Jeles (Talk Straight) revealed three major drug hubs in Mount Lebanon.
The investigative TV show revealed the location and identities of drug dealers and disclosed their method of transporting and distributing drugs. Presenter Joe Maalouf also divulged how the dealers would evade arrest and hide in Baalbek’s Sharawneh neighborhood or along the Lebanese-Syrian border.
In more controversial content, Maalouf claimed that officers in the Lebanese security forces were being bribed to protect drug dealers from arrest.
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