Two residents of the coastal city of Petah Tikva were arrested on Tuesday, over suspicions that they were running a cocaine laboratory in their apartment.
The two, aged 33 and 37, were suspected of importing liquid cocaine, and then working on the illegal drug in a laboratory established in their apartment in the city to turn it into a solid for smoking, reports Yedioth Aharonoth.
Both suspects were nabbed by police and brought in for questioning following an investigation by the central district police, which led to the discovery of equipment in their apartment used in turning the drug from a liquid to a solid.
A trial to extend the detention of the two is to be held later on Tuesday in the Rishon Letzion Magistrates’ Court.
The arrest is likely connected to another arrest last week, in which a drug smuggler was caught trying to run liquid cocaine through Ben Gurion International Airport on his way back from Spain.
The smuggler was found to have a suitcase full of clothes soaked in the liquid drug, with the overall weight of the clothes and the drugs being 11 kilograms (over 24 pounds).
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