Hong Kong police have seized HK$76 million (US$9.8 million) worth of suspected ketamine and cocaine hidden in legitimate goods, arresting four people, including two recruited with the promise of receiving free travel and cash rewards of up to HK$50,000. Jacky Chang Ka-chun, acting superintendent of the force’s narcotics bureau, said on Wednesday that officers confiscated…
Four travellers from Jamaica, including a father and son, have been stopped at Hong Kong airport and detained after being found to have almost a kilogram of cocaine hidden inside their bodies. The incident unfolded at Hong Kong International Airport on Friday when customs officials intercepted the three men and a woman, aged between 21…
A U.S. Coast Guard crew completed a two-month anti-drug trafficking operation this week that resulted in huge narcotics seizures and the arrests of dozens of suspected smugglers at sea, the agency said. The Coast Guard cutter Campbell returned to its port on Monday in Newport, Rhode Island, after a patrol mission through the Caribbean and Eastern…
President Trump has said part of his motivation for imposing now-paused tariffs on Canada was to force the country to crack down on illicit fentanyl trafficking — but very little of the synthetic opioid enters the U.S. through its northern border. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the tariffs, announced Feb. 1 on Mexico, Canada and…
A man from Nigeria has been detained at the Hong Kong International Airport on suspicion of carrying more than HK$500,000 (US$64,250) worth of cocaine concealed in his body. Customs officers said on Sunday that they became suspicious of the 54-year-old man during clearance after he arrived from Lagos, Nigeria, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday….
Hong Kong police have arrested three men on suspicion of drug trafficking, seizing seven kilograms of heroin with a street value of HK$4.3 million (US$553,000). The force revealed on Sunday that officers from the narcotics bureau had arrested the trio aged between 27 and 46 on the previous day in during a raid on a…
Hong Kong customs officers have seized HK$44 million (US$11.3 million) of Ice concealed in wooden pallets carrying painted ceramics from Kyrgyzstan, the first haul from the central Asian country and the largest for the drug entering the city by air cargo this year. Ivan Chow Wing-cheong, senior investigator of customs’ drug investigation bureau, said on…
HONG KONG, Sept 15 — Hong Kong police have made their largest-ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘Ice’, confiscating HK$210 million (RM116.1 million) worth of the drug hidden in furniture and arresting a 26-year-old Malaysian on suspicion of trafficking. According to South China Morning Post (SCMP), Acting Superintendent Cheung Hok-fung from the narcotics…
Hong Kong police have made the city’s biggest seizure of Ice on record, confiscating HK$210 million (US$27 million) worth of the drug concealed in furniture and arresting a 26-year-old Malaysian on suspicion of trafficking the substance. Acting Superintendent Cheung Hok-fung of the force’s narcotics bureau said on Saturday that suspected substances – 335kg of solid…