(Photo: Police Spokeswoman)
Northern District Police forces in cooperation with the IDF force thwarted the largest arms smuggling in history from the Lebanese border.
After a chase by detectives from the Central Unit of the Northern District, 3 arms dealers, residents of the village of Tuba Zangaria, were arrested near the HaMovil junction. The suspects were driving a Skoda vehicle and were arrested after police officers from the Central District Central Unit blocked their way. During a search of their vehicle, 61 weapons were seized in 2 cases: 58 pistols and 3 m16 rifles The suspected substance was also seized as a drug weighing half a kilo. The total cost of the smuggling is estimated at NIS 3,500,000.
From the beginning of the year in a period of only three months, the unit thwarted 4 smuggling attempts, during which 120 weapons were seized.
Smuggling of weapons from Lebanon (police spokeswoman)
Smuggling of weapons from Lebanon (police spokeswoman)
Northern District Commander Superintendent Shimon Lavi: Some estimate the value of the 61 weapons we seized at NIS 3 and a half million, but I ask you to frustrate it otherwise, these quality and new weapons, if they came to the streets of the Arab sector, would shoot! Whoever buys weapons Illegal at such a level, buy it to use it. So it’s not that we caught 61 weapons worth 3 and a half million NIS. We have saved the lives of several dozen residents here, Some were probably innocent civilians and even children who might have been harmed. We have taken power here from the factors that are causing crime in Arab society. And this activity, like all our activities, day in, day out, is designed to give the residents the personal security that we all, all residents of the country, are entitled to. “
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