Police seize drugs worth $195m

August 19, 2021

The Police Narcotics Bureau announced that it made its largest drug seizure of the year after it raided a drug trafficking syndicate’s main drugs storage centre yesterday and seized $195 million worth of suspected methamphetamine and heroin.

 

Briefing the media on the case this afternoon, Police Narcotics Bureau Acting Chief Superintendent Ng Wing-sze explained that the syndicate’s largest store is in Cheung Sha Wan and Police eventually identified it after it conducted five operations that included arrest actions taken between May and July.

 

She pointed out that during that period, Narcotics Bureau officers raided five drug stores located in Hung Hom, Sheung Shui, Fanling, Ma On Shan and Tseung Kwan O.

 

In the course of the arrest actions, Police altogether arrested eight local men and four local women aged from 16 to 45. The individuals are suspected of trafficking in dangerous drugs, manufacturing dangerous drugs, conspiracy of trafficking in dangerous drugs and obstructing police officers.

 

Police seized a total of 96.3kg of drugs including heroin, cocaine, ketamine, and “ice” (methamphetamine).

 

Ms Ng said: “After the five operations, (including) arrest actions taken (in) between about three months, we continued to investigate and eventually we identified the largest store of the syndicate which (was) in Cheung Sha Wan and that is why we took overt action yesterday.

 

“We arrested a local man, aged 22, for the offences of trafficking in dangerous drugs.

 

“In the arrest action we took yesterday, altogether we seized 234kg of drugs, including 148kg of ‘ice’ and 86kg of heroin.

 

“Actually the seizure of heroin and ‘ice’ is the largest seizure up to now this year.”

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