In the pursuit of fake pleasures and money, some people completely lose sight of morality and don’t even stop to think about what might happen when the arm of the UAE law enforcement catches up with them.
Gerry, 23, had met Lena, 28, without his family in his home country knowing anything about it. Nor did the family have any idea that they posed as ‘husband and wife’, and lived together in a rented flat, pretending to all neighbors that they were married.
Yet, as the old saying goes, “the rope of lies is short”, because not long after the couple moved in, their neighbors sensed something weird was taking place. They saw strangers going in and out of the couple’s flat almost every day, both during the day and at night. Feeling suspicious that something illegal was happening, the neighbors went to the police and reported the matter.
The police got the required permission and put the flat occupied by Gerry and Lena under round-the-clock surveillance. Two more reports came to the police regarding the same flat; both alleged that the flat was a den for drug trading and other kinds of crimes.
The surveillance didn’t have to go on for too long – the husband fell into the police net while he was selling narcotic pills to a buyer in front of the apartment building. Both of them were arrested on the spot, were handcuffed, and taken to the police station. They were handed over to the criminal investigation department at the police general headquarters. Next, members of the CID team went to the flat and fetched the woman to listen to what she had to say.
Facing interrogation, Lena admitted that she had been engaged in prostitution for some easy cash. She also confessed that she had a false marriage with Gerry under a marriage contract in her native country that was not recognised by the law. The fake husband was the one who brought her customers, while he himself took orders, procured, and sold drugs.
Gerry didn’t deny the charges: drug abuse and drug dealing with the help of his younger brother Shawn, who had escaped the police once earlier.
He led the police to the hiding place that both his brother and his fake wife used when needed. That hiding place was nothing more than a room that they had rented.
Shawn, too, was tracked down soon, and he admitted to everything, corroborating what his brother had told the police.
Following these confessions, all the three accused were referred to the judicial authorities, and they were sentenced to prison and deportation.
Disclaimer: The names mentioned in this article have been changed. Similarities to actual events may be incidental.
Are they both Filipinos?