Hong Kong Customs closes down drug production centre and takes presumed drug and thought fracture drug worth about $1.1 million (with picture)
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Hong Kong Customs the other day (September 1) close down a thought drug production centre in Tai Wai and took about 620 grams of believed fracture drug and about 550g of believed drug. The overall approximated market price had to do with $1.1 million. One guy, aged 20, believed to be gotten in touch with the case, was jailed.
Throughout an anti-narcotics operation performed in Tai Wai the other day, Customs officers obstructed a 20-year-old regional male and took about 500g of believed fracture drug inside a cross-body bag brought by him. The guy was consequently jailed. Customizeds officers later on accompanied him to a property close by for a search and more took about 550g of presumed drug, about 120g of believed fracture drug and a batch of presumed drug production and packaging stuff.
The arrestee has actually been charged with 2 counts of trafficking in a harmful drug and one count of manufacture of an unsafe drug, and he will appear at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow (September 3).
According to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the manufacture of a harmful drug and trafficking in a harmful drug are major offenses. The optimum charge upon conviction is a fine of $5 million and life jail time.
Members of the general public might report any presumed drug trafficking activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its devoted crime-reporting e-mail account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online kind (eform.cefs.gov.hk/ form/ced002).