{"id":33985,"date":"2025-12-11T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=33985"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:12:48","slug":"massive-drug-bust-in-ouargla-hundreds-of-thousands-of-capsules-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=33985","title":{"rendered":"Massive Drug Bust in Ouargla: Hundreds of Thousands of Capsules Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ouargla, Algeria<\/strong> \u2013 Authorities in Ouargla have dismantled a major drug trafficking network, seizing over 665,000 capsules of psychotropic substances and a cache of weapons from a farm used as a hideout. Four suspects have been remanded in custody pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals, identified as Mohamed Belal Omar, Mohamed Moussa Belal Omar, Kelghalgh Mohamed Aissa, and Ben Ghalia Belkheir, are allegedly part of a nine-person criminal organization specializing in the illicit trade of narcotics and psychotropic drugs. The arrests are the culmination of an ongoing investigation into organized crime in the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to judicial sources, investigators discovered a massive quantity of &#8220;Pregabalin&#8221; type capsules, totaling 665,550, during a search of the farm. The raid also yielded 96 pyrotechnic devices, a Kalashnikov assault rifle with a magazine containing 27 rounds, two hunting rifles, and 81 live cartridges. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the drugs and firearms, authorities confiscated two Thuraya satellite communication devices with three SIM cards, binoculars, and several vehicles allegedly used for smuggling. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects face serious charges, including possession, storage, and purchase of psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale within a transnational organized criminal group, use of a firearm, smuggling that threatens public security and health, and possession of unlicensed weapons and ammunition of the first and fifth categories.<\/p>\n<p><em>The investigation is ongoing, and further arrests are possible.<\/em> This operation underscores the ongoing efforts to combat organized crime, particularly drug trafficking, in Algeria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouargla, Algeria \u2013 Authorities in Ouargla have dismantled a major drug trafficking network, seizing over 665,000 capsules of psychotropic substances and a cache of weapons from a farm used as a hideout. Four suspects have been remanded in custody pending further investigation.<\/p... \n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33987,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33985\/revisions\/33987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}