{"id":3445,"date":"2026-04-29T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:28:48","slug":"kuwait-foils-major-drug-smuggling-attempt-500000-captagon-pills-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/04\/29\/kuwait-foils-major-drug-smuggling-attempt-500000-captagon-pills-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Foils Major Drug Smuggling Attempt; 500,000 Captagon Pills Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>KUWAIT CITY: The Ministry of Interior announced that authorities have foiled a major drug smuggling attempt involving nearly 500,000 Captagon tablets.<\/p><p>The shipment, disguised as food items and arriving \u0639\u0628\u0631 a maritime border, was carefully tracked and found to contain psychotropic substances hidden.  A coordinated operation between the General Directorate for Drug Control and Customs led to its seizure.<\/p><p>A Gulf national was arrested in a planned ambush while receiving the shipment, while the sender was apprehended in Lebanon in cooperation with anti-narcotics authorities there.<\/p><p>Officials confirmed that the operation reflects strong regional coordination and reaffirmed Kuwait\u2019s commitment to combating drug trafficking and protecting society.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUWAIT CITY: The Ministry of Interior announced that authorities have foiled a major drug smuggling attempt involving nearly 500,000 Captagon tablets. The shipment, disguised as food items and arriving \u0639\u0628\u0631 a maritime border, was carefully tracked and found to contain psychotropic substances hidden. A coordinated operation between the General Directorate for Drug Control and Customs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gulf-en","8":"category-kuwait-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}