Customs seizes suspected cocaine worth about HK$660,000 at airport
Dong Thap Customs seizes 1,350kg of smuggled sugar | |
Da Nang Customs seizes over 6.6 tons of suspected pangolin scales and ivory | |
HCM City Customs seizes 43kg of drugs and marijuana in express parcels |
Officers on that day examined an air parcel, declared as carrying woollen knitwear, arriving in Hong Kong from Chile and found the batch of suspected cocaine concealed inside eight cotton yarn spools.
Upon follow-up investigation, Officers arrested a 24-year-old man suspected to be connected with the case in Wong Tai Sin last Saturday. Later, a small quantity of suspected cocaine and a set of drug-inhaling apparatus were further seized inside the arrested man's residence.
The arrested man has been charged with one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug, one count of possession in a dangerous drug and one count of possession of apparatus fit and intended for the inhalation of a dangerous drug. He will appear at Kwun Tong Magistrates' Courts on Monday.
Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, trafficking in a dangerous drug is a serious offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $5 million and life imprisonment.
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