{"id":4143,"date":"2026-06-15T05:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:16:59","slug":"kuwait-busts-captagon-factory-seizes-drugs-worth-kd-500000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/06\/15\/kuwait-busts-captagon-factory-seizes-drugs-worth-kd-500000\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Busts Captagon Factory, Seizes Drugs Worth KD 500,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kuwait City: Kuwait&#8217;s General Directorate for Drug Control has dismantled a secret Captagon manufacturing operation in the Kabd area and arrested two individuals residing illegally in the country.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Ministry of Interior, investigators monitored the suspects&#8217; activities before raiding a farm that had been converted into a covert production site for psychotropic substances. The suspects reportedly attempted to resist arrest and escape during the operation, but security personnel successfully took them into custody.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the raid, officers seized approximately five kilograms of raw Captagon powder, a tablet-pressing machine, precision scales and various tools used for packaging and distributing narcotic pills. Authorities also recovered empty bags and other materials linked to the manufacturing process.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initial investigations led the suspects to confess to hiding a larger quantity of ready-to-distribute pills buried underground. Security teams subsequently recovered around 100,000 Captagon tablets with an estimated street value exceeding KD 500,000.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two suspects, along with all seized materials and equipment, have been referred to the competent authorities for further legal action as investigations continue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait City: Kuwait&#8217;s General Directorate for Drug Control has dismantled a secret Captagon manufacturing operation in the Kabd area and arrested two individuals residing illegally in the country. According to the Ministry of Interior, investigators monitored the suspects&#8217; activities before raiding a farm that had been converted into a covert production site for psychotropic substances. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kuwait-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}