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SINGAPORE: Officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested 11 suspected drug offenders and seized a wide variety of drugs in operations spanning multiple locations this week, the bureau said on Friday (October 9).
A CNB operation in Jalan Selamat on Wednesday led to drug raids at four other locations, in which agents seized drugs with an estimated total value of about S $ 1.2 million.
That included about 3.6kg of ice or crystalline methamphetamine, 265g of heroin, 910g of cannabis, 398g of ketamine, 76 ecstasy tablets and 555 Erimin-5 tablets, CNB said in a press release.
Seven men and four women, ages 20 to 54, were arrested in the raids and their drug-related activities are being investigated.
FIVE ARRESTED ON HAPPY ROAD
On Wednesday night, CNB agents arrested a man and a woman, both aged 26, near Jalan Selamat in Kembangan.
Approximately 400 g of ice and 20 tablets of ecstasy were recovered from the man-driven vehicle.
The man was taken to his hiding place nearby, where more ice tablets and Erimin-5 were found.
Officers also arrested three suspects, two men, ages 26 and 22, and a 24-year-old woman, in the same unit as the hideout.
Before his arrests, a package was believed to have been thrown from the window, CNB said.
Officers later recovered the package, which contained approximately 545g of ice. They also found ice, cannabis, ecstasy tablets and S $ 13,780 in cash in the room where the three suspects were arrested.
Four packages containing about 20 g of ice were also found in the vehicle driven by the 26-year-old man detained in the room.
SIX ARRESTED IN FOLLOW-UP OPERATIONS
In a follow-up operation Thursday morning, CNB agents raided a residence in the vicinity of Lorong Limau, near Whampoa.
They arrested a 47-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. About 599 g of ice, as well as cannabis, ketamine, ecstasy and Erimin-5 tablets were seized from the residence.
Later that day, officers arrested a 54-year-old man near 86 Tampines Street and recovered Erimin-5 tablets from him.
Agents also raided a unit near Aljunied Crescent, where they arrested a 34-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman and seized a variety of drugs.
A search for a bicycle belonging to the man turned up more than 1 kg of ice and approximately 398 g of ketamine.
Approximately 1 kg of ice and approximately 398 g of ketamine were found on a bicycle in the vicinity of Aljunied Crescent on October 8, 2020 (Photo: Central Narcotics Office).
The two men, 54 and 34, are believed to be linked to the two drug offenders arrested near Lorong Limau in Whampoa on Thursday, CNB said.
On Thursday night, in another follow-up operation, officers arrested a 28-year-old man in a hotel room near Upper Weld Road in Little India.
He was found in possession of a heroin straw that weighed about 0.3 g, CNB said.
Subsequently, a search of the hotel room turned up around 265g of heroin and 157g of ice, as well as cannabis, ecstasy, and Erimin-5 tablets.
Cash worth S $ 2,004 and various drug-related accessories were also recovered from the hotel room.
The total amount of ice seized in the raids, about 3.6 kg, is enough to fuel the addiction of about 2,100 drug addicts for a week, CNB said.
