SINGAPORE: Medicines with an estimated street value of about S$555, 000 were seized following a two-week islandwide operation by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).
The series of raids, which ended on Friday (Aug 26), netted about 3, 730g of heroin, 866g of Ice, 5, 240g associated with cannabis, 51 fervor tablets and 2g of ketamine.
CNB also confiscated 21g of new psychoactive substances (NPS), 108 Erimin-5 tablets, twenty nine Yaba tablets, a bottle of methadone and four containers of liquid thought to contain gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).
A total of 134 thought drug offenders had been also arrested, stated CNB, adding that some of the areas protected during the operation incorporated Bukit Batok, Kallang and Sengkang.
THROWN OUT OF HOME WINDOW
In one of the situations, CNB officers raided a residential device near Chai Chee Avenue on August 23.
Two Singaporean men, good old 58 and fifty nine, were arrested. A small amount of heroin and a bottle of methadone had been seized from the device, as well as various drug paraphernalia, said CNB.
“Prior to the arrest, suspected managed drugs were thought to have been thrown out of the unit’s window, ” the agency additional.
Photos used by CNB showed various officers retrieving the particular suspected controlled medicines from a construction hoarding.
They afterwards recovered the substances, which included 3 packets and straws containing about 13g of heroin.