Read Next: Dubai Police Thwarts Region’s BIGGEST Smuggling Attempt Worth AED500 Million<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Dubai Police recently foiled a smuggling attempt of 500 kilos of pure cocaine into the country in an operation dubbed ‘Scorpion.’ The drugs were well-hidden within the structure of a shipping container, having a street value of more than AED500 million ($136 million)!<\/p>\n
The operation is the greatest narcotics seizure in the region, according to the Dubai Police. The drug bust has led to the arrest of a Middle Eastern gang member who was acting as a middleman for an international drug cartel within the country.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image_block","image":{"ID":51395,"id":51395,"title":"Copy of LOVIN DUBAI_Featured Image template","filename":"Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template.png","filesize":1,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template.png","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/latest\/dubai-police-thwarts-regions-biggest-smuggling-attempt-worth-aed500-million\/attachment\/copy-of-lovin-dubai_featured-image-template-7\/","alt":"","author":"402","description":"","caption":"","name":"copy-of-lovin-dubai_featured-image-template-7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":51394,"date":"2021-10-10 16:00:03","modified":"2021-10-10 16:00:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template-small.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template-medium.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template-large.png","large-width":800,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template.png","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template.png","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":400,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template-230x115.png","small-width":120,"small-height":60,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2021\/10\/10200004\/Copy-of-LOVIN-DUBAI_Featured-Image-template.png","custom-size-width":400,"custom-size-height":200}},"image_caption":""}],"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"featured_for_app":false,"legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":false,"episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}