Antiques Arrest in Abu Dhabi

Three foreigners held in Abu Dhabi for trying to sell smuggled antiquities '  AP October 18, 2016.

Police in Abu Dhabi said that they have arrested three foreigners for trying to sell smuggled antiquities [...] [the men] arrested at a hotel in the capital of the United Arab Emirates had antique daggers, old coins and other items they tried to sell for a high price. Police identified the three as being Arabs, without offering any specifics on who they were, their nationalities or the providence [sic] of the stolen items. 

It wasn’t clear whether these were archaeological artefacts.