Hong Kong police have arrested 321 people, including a 13-year-old, and seized HK$130 million (US$16.5 million) worth of suspected illegal drugs during a seven-week citywide crackdown. Code-named “Tailbacker”, the operation ran from July 12 to August 29, and uncovered 234 drug-related cases, police said on Sunday. The 321 suspects, aged between 13 and 72, comprised…
Hong Kong customs officers have arrested three men in connection with 131 kilograms (289 pounds) of suspected ketamine worth about HK$51 million (US$6.5 million), disguised as sugar cubes and found in air cargo transported to the city. Chiu Kai-wing, a senior investigator with the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau, said on Saturday that…
Hong Kong police have arrested 13 people in a three-day operation targeting drink- and drug-driving during the World Cup. The force said on Monday that its Traffic Kowloon East enforcement and control division conducted the operation, code-named “Quickchaser”, from July 3 to 5 on major thoroughfares in the area, netting 10 men, a 17-year-old boy…
Hong Kong police have arrested a driver who crashed his car into a parked vehicle in Tai Kok Tsui and tested positive for ketamine, marking at least the fourth suspected drug-driving case in less than a week. The accident occurred at around noon on Sunday on Hoi Fai Road outside the Olympian City 3 shopping…
Hong Kong customs officers have seized 6.5kg of suspected drugs worth about HK$3.4 million (US$433,800) and arrested two men in separate cases earlier this week. The Customs and Excise Department said on Friday that the first arrest occurred two days earlier at Hong Kong International Airport, when officers found 3.1kg (6.8lbs) of suspected ketamine in…
A Hong Kong campsite operator has been convicted of murdering his live-in girlfriend four years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment, after telling police he believed she was an alien, with the judge describing the killing as a “vicious, brutal and savage attack and murder”. A High Court jury of four men and three women…
A Hong Kong man on trial for allegedly murdering his live-in girlfriend four years ago has said he thought she was an alien because she did not bear his child. A High Court jury of four men and three women heard on Thursday that Tang Lung-fai, 56, admitted causing the death of Fok Sin-yee, 38,…
Hong Kong Customs has arrested 62 people and seized about 1.4 tonnes of suspected drugs worth roughly HK$431 million (US$55.27 million) in a major crackdown at the city’s airport, carried out with mainland Chinese and overseas authorities. The Customs and Excise Department said on Wednesday that a months-long operation conducted from October to December targeted…
Hong Kong customs has arrested three people after it seized HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) worth of suspected ketamine hidden inside baby car seats in two shipping containers from the Netherlands and Spain. The Customs and Excise Department said on Thursday that its officers found 36.2kg (79.8lbs) of the drug while inspecting two seaborne consolidated containers…