Tuesday 10/December/2024 – 04:30 PM
A criminal court ruled Port Said, Headed by Counselor Ahmed Hossam El-Naggar, President of the Court, and membership of Counselors Ahmed Mohamed Mostafa, President of the Court, and Mohamed Mortada Maram, Vice-President of the Court, and the secretariat of Tariq Okasha and Khaled Khudair, an unemployed person who was caught with drugs, weapons and ammunition in Port Said was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
10 years imprisonment for an unemployed man in possession of drugs, weapons and ammunition in Port Said
And it comes back Events of the incident Until the 5th of August 2024, the accused was unemployed and residing in the Al-Zuhur area, where he possessed substance – a drug of hashish with the intention of using it, and possessed without a license an unloaded firearm – an unloaded cartridge, and possessed ammunition consisting of a bullet used on the firearm.
Mazen Atef Jaber Muhammad, a police captain and assistant investigator of the Al-Zohour Police Department, testified that as he was passing through security on the public road, he saw the accused appearing from among the folds of his clothes was the handle of a firearm, so he seized it. The weapon turned out to be a single cartridge with a bullet inside it. Upon searching it, he found a plastic bag of the narcotic hashish plant, and confronting him, he admitted to having The narcotic substance for the purpose of taking it, and the firearm and bullet for the purpose of self-defense.
It was laboratory proven that the plant parts inside the bag were of the cannabis plant, which contains the active ingredient of cannabis listed in Schedule I of the Narcotics Law, and weighed 3.5 grams. It was proven in the forensic evidence report that the seized firearm was an unfired 12 mm cartridge, and the weapon was complete and usable, and the seized bullet was Complete parts, unhammered, serviceable capsule for use on firearm.
The court ruled to punish the accused with 10 years in prison, fine him 10,000 pounds for what was charged to him, confiscate the seized drugs and firearm, and oblige him to pay criminal costs, in Case No. 5773 of 2024 Flower Felony, registered under No. 1336 of 2024 in Port Said.
