Fujairah court sentenced him to 4 years in prison

A Gulf Arab drives his vehicle under the influence of drugs and resists the police

The Fujairah Criminal Court sentenced a Gulf national to four years in prison, convicting him of five charges, including the use of narcotics and psychotropic substances, possession of narcotics and psychotropic substances with intent to use, assaulting a law enforcement official, resisting him while performing his job, and driving a vehicle under the influence of narcotic substances. .

In detail, the accused resisted three security men, beat them while they were performing their duties, and inflicted injuries on them, while he was under the influence of narcotics and psychotropic substances.

The police had received information that the accused possessed a quantity of narcotics and psychotropic substances, with the intention of promoting, and based on an order from the Public Prosecution, the accused was arrested, but he resisted the officers and assaulted them, and during the search of the vehicle he was driving, a quantity of substances was found. mental.

In the police report and the prosecution’s investigations, the accused admitted that he resisted and assaulted the officers, inflicting injuries on them, and that he used a psychotropic substance and possessed a psychotropic substance, and drove his vehicle on a public road under the influence of narcotics.

In front of the court through the remote trial program, the accused told the court that he did not assault or resist the officers, did not cause them any injuries, and did not drive his vehicle on a public road under the influence of a psychotropic substance, while he admitted the other charges, which are the use and possession of psychotropic substances. Without the legally authorized cases, he is asked to be acquitted of the first and fifth charges.

The court convicted the accused of the charges against him based on his admission in the police inference record and the investigations of the Public Prosecution, as the court took them due to its reassurance of their validity and conformity with the truth and reality, because the lesson in criminal trials is the conviction of the subject judge of the evidence before him to convict the accused or his innocence, especially since the accused did not claim that this The confession was extracted from him under duress, and the medical reports on the victims confirm the validity of the confession, then his explicit confession before the court of using psychotropic substances in cases other than those authorized by law, and that he possessed a psychotropic substance. The laboratory report also confirmed the finding of psychotropic substances in the accused’s urine sample.

The court imposed three years' imprisonment for the first charge, a year's imprisonment for the second, third and fourth charges, for association, and a month's imprisonment for the fifth charge, in addition to confiscation of the seized items.

• The court reassured the accused's confessions in the police report, and the prosecution's investigations.

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