Separate police operations seize three million patacas worth of heroin

Separate police operations seize three million patacas worth of heroin

The Judiciary Police (PJ) cracked down on three separate drug trafficking cases this week and seized a total of nearly three kilograms of heroin with a street value of three million patacas.

Two men and a woman, aged 27 to 29, from the Philippines were apprehended for alleged drug trafficking by using different methods at the Macau International Airport over the past two days.

According to the police spokesman Chau Wai Kuong yesterday, the three suspects flew from Kuala Lumpur separately to Macau, and the PJ believe that while they had no connection between them, they might both be controlled by the same criminal syndicate.

One of the male suspects, aged 28, ingested 50 wrapped substances of heroin in order to avoid police detection, Chau said.

He was arrested on Sunday after having been interrogated at MIA, where he also admitted to police that there were drugs inside his body.

He told police the heroin was given by an African man in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday night.

After a day in the public hospital, Chau said the 28-year-old suspect had excreted all of the 50 packets of the substance, which weighed about 395 grams with a street value of 450,000 patacas.

In two other separate incidents, the PJ also caught a 29-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman one who allegedly smuggled about 2,132 grams and the other 200 grams of heroin by hiding it inside his suitcase and her shoes.

Chau said a total of 2,900 grams of heroin were discovered and valued at about three million patacas.

The three suspects had made multiple entries to Macau, and the PJ is still investigating whether they had smuggled any drugs into the territory previously, the spokesman added.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Macau Daily Times