Contraband seized by the Lebanese Army during the arrest of a suspect. (Credit: Lebanese Army)
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced Saturday that its forces had arrested a man suspected of shooting at an army patrol and a military center.
Here's what we know:
• The army arrested the suspect, identified as T.H., in a raid on his house in the town of Jalala, in the Bekaa valley, on Friday, the statement said, in connection with a June 5 incident in which a group of people opened fire on an army patrol that was conducting a raid, killing one soldier and wounding others.
• The suspect had also allegedly shot at at several military centers and a mosque previously and thrown a grenade.
• A military weapon and ammunition belonging to the suspect were seized from his house, in addition to 15 kilograms of hashish and a quantity of captagon pills and other narcotic pills, the army statement said.
• The Bekaa, where non-state arms are widespread, is a center of the drug trade in Lebanon and often the scene of bloody clashes between rival clans, and sometimes between locals and Lebanese Army soldiers.
