The security forces’ command in Baalbek, in coordination with intelligence services, conducted a search of a farm on Saturday owned by a member of the al-Ismail family, where it captured three trucks loaded with marijuana that had been prepared in the Brital and Taybe villages.

Security forces also confiscated three manufacturing machines and took them, along with the marijuana, to the police station in Najib Zaatar at the entrance of the city in southern Baalbek. A number of people wanted for theft and drug-related crimes were also arrested.

In Tripoli, four people were arrested, including three Lebanese and one Syrian, for allegedly being members of a group that forged official documents and sold Lebanese-owned land without the owners’ knowledge or consent. The group’s activity took place in Tripoli, Koura, Donnieh, and other northern regions. A number of mayors were also investigated in an attempt to uncover how the group had access to fake identifications. 

-NOW Staff