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SINGAPORE – A 28-year-old woman who provided methamphetamine to three high school students was jailed for seven years and nine months on Wednesday (September 30).
Noor Fadhilah Azlan, who had shared his bedroom, where he used drugs, with his two children, was also fined $ 10,300 for his smuggled cigarette transactions.
He pleaded guilty to three counts under the Drug Misuse Law and three counts under the Customs Law. Eight other charges of a similar nature were taken into consideration for sentencing.
Drug offenses Noor Fadhilah pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine to a man, allowing the three teens to use his bedroom to use drugs, and allowing a young man to smoke methamphetamine.
On September 25 of last year, at approximately 12:35 p.m., officials from the Central Narcotics Office carried out an operation in an apartment in which Noor Fadhilah rented a room.
Drug paraphernalia were seized and Noor Fadhilah was arrested along with seven other people. These seven included the three high school teens and two 37-year-old men.
These two men had gone to Noor Fadhilah’s residence to buy methamphetamine earlier that day. One of them had paid him $ 300 for medicines and utensils. Noor Fadhilah admitted to trafficking methamphetamine, also known as “ice,” to one of the men and claimed that his smuggled cigarette supplier introduced him to drug trafficking as a means to earn quick money.
She would get her supply of prepackaged “ice” through dead drops around her property and would be instructed to sell the “ice” to customers according to prices set by the supplier. She estimated that she would earn around $ 500 a week from drug dealing.
Two of the three teenagers, a girl and a boy aged 13 and 14 respectively, who were arrested at Noor Fadhilah’s residence, were known to her for their sale of smuggled cigarettes. The other teenager was the sister of the 13-year-old girl, who was 14 years old. The trio used to hang out in Noor Fadhilah’s bedroom. The male teenager had previously purchased methamphetamine from Noor Fadhilah.
At the time of their arrest, the three had been staying in Noor Fadhilah’s room for several days. Around midnight on September 24, Noor Fadhilah was smoking methamphetamine in his room in the presence of the three teenagers when he decided to offer them the drug.
The teens agreed to smoke the drug and Noor Fadhilah let them do it in her room. He shared his utensils with the trio, and each person took turns taking a puff. The session lasted about 10 minutes and the three did not pay Noor Fadhilah for the drug.
Sell cigarettes without paying taxes
Aside from drug-related crimes, Noor Fadhilah also admitted to having committed crimes related to unpaid cigarettes.
On September 17, 2019, customs officers conducted an operation to detain violators involved in the sale of smuggled cigarettes in the vicinity of Block 417, Bukit Batok West Avenue 4.
Officers saw two 14-year-old boys approaching a unit and Noor Fadhilah was seen handing packets of cigarettes to the two teens in the common hallway of an HDB block. Officers approached the two boys and found two packets of cigarettes on top.
Later that night, officers testified to Noor Fadhilah and entered his unit to check for unpaid cigarettes. Officers found a total of 93 packages containing various amounts of unpaid cigarettes inside the unit. Noor Fadhilah admitted owning the cigarettes and was arrested.
He had bought the cigarettes for $ 38 from an unknown Indonesian street vendor at Yew Tee and would resell each pack for $ 6, making a profit of about $ 2.60 each per pack.
He had been buying 10 cartons of cigarettes a day over a two to three week period to resell them for profit, and had sold eight to nine cartons a day.
The day she was arrested for drug offenses, Noor Fadhilah was again found with more than 55 boxes of unpaid cigarettes. She had bought the cigarettes from unknown Indonesian street vendors at a bus stop after a Yew Tee overpass at $ 45 a box. She would sell the cigarettes to her friends for $ 7 a pack.
In sentencing Noor Fadhilah, District Judge Kan Shuk Weng stated that a deterrent sentence should be imposed in such cases.
