Hong Kong police have arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of drug trafficking after uncovering a narcotics cache worth about HK$530,000 (US$67,520) hidden inside his Mong Kok home. Officers from Wong Tai Sin district’s anti-triad unit raided a flat on Pak Po Street on Monday, seizing about 1kg (2.2lbs) of suspected crystal meth “ice”. Police…
Hong Kong customs has confiscated more than 2.6 tonnes of illegal drugs valued at HK$1.1 billion (US$141.8 million) and arrested 102 people in an air-land-sea anti-narcotics operation in the first quarter of 2025, the Post has learned. Latest figures obtained by the Post revealed that the haul marked a 33 per cent increase compared with…
Hong Kong is battling a sharp rise in drug cases involving a newly emerging narcotic known as “space oil”, with police handling 90 reports in the first 10 months of the year compared with only eight in all of 2023. The force provided the latest data on Tuesday and said officers had arrested 99 people…
A Hong Kong obstetrician who kept more than 20 grams (0.7 ounces) of crystal meth in a hotel room he shared with his boyfriend has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for five drug offences. Counsel for Eric Chan Ho-lam, 32, on Friday asked Magistrate Kestrel Lam Tsz-hong at Kowloon City Court to impose…
Hong Kong police have arrested five people and seized more than HK$1.1 million (US$141,570) of illegal drugs, including the newly emerging “space oil”, in a crackdown on a local trafficking syndicate. The force said on Friday that investigations revealed the racket sold various narcotics on the city’s underground market and operated at a Cheung Sha…