'Syndicates smashed' with drug seizures
Police believe they have smashed two drug syndicates after the arrest of five people and the seizure of heroin worth more than $30 million.
Acting Chief Superintendent of the Narcotics Bureau Sherrif Sin Kam-wah said it was the largest seizure of pure heroin in two years. Police suspected it had been smuggled from the Golden Triangle region straddling Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, he said.
Mr Sin said police laid an ambush at Chak On Estate in Shek Kip Mei on Saturday and saw a woman enter a flat in Fu Chak House that afternoon.
Officers intercepted the 27-year-old as she left the flat and found 1.4kg of heroin in her handbag. She was arrested for trafficking in dangerous drugs.
A man, 32, who drove the woman to the flat was also arrested for possession and trafficking in dangerous drugs after officers found 16 packets of ketamine and 18 tablets of Ecstasy in his possession.
Mr Sin said officers also found 37.1kg of heroin in two nylon bags when they searched the flat. Police later found that a stone hut in Ping Che, Ta Ku Ling, had been used for manufacturing drugs.
Mr Sin said officers intercepted a 20-year-old man as he was leaving the hut and seized 19kg of heroin and drug manufacturing equipment in the hut.
The man and another man, 27, who was in the hut when officers raided it, were arrested.
Officers also raided a flat in Tai Tau Leng Village, Sheung Shui, where a 20-year-old woman was arrested for possession of dangerous drugs after 118 grams of heroin was seized.
The seized heroin, totalling more than 57kg, had a street value of at least $30 million, Mr Sin said.
