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Saudi authorities find amphetamine pills in cleaning supplies

Smugglers continue to use creative methods to bring drugs into the kingdom, which struggles with amphetamine addiction.

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An immigrant worker cleans a plaza from sand with a hose at the newly-built King Abdullah Financial District on June 20, 2018, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. — Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Another drug bust in Saudi Arabia was reported today. 

The Saudi General Directorate of Narcotics Control said it discovered 2,225,000 amphetamine pills in the Red Sea port of Jeddah that were hidden in floor wipers. The wipers were allegedly owned by a Riyadh resident who is a Syrian citizen. The person was arrested, the directorate said in a press release.

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