SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) — A 23-year-old male Malaysian driver was arrested as 2,898gm of cannabis and 125gm of \u2018ice\u2019 or crystal methamphetamine\u00a0were seized from an arriving Malaysia-registered car at Tuas Checkpoint on Feb 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In its website Thursday, Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on the day, at about 6.50 am, its officers conducted checks on the car and spotted packages concealed in the rear seat cushion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ICA said the cannabis and ice which were retrieved from the packages was estimated at S$41,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Malaysian driver was immediately placed under arrest and the case was handed over to Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) for further investigation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, in a separate statement, CNB said a 40-year old male Malaysian was arrested as 267gm of ice, wrapped in two black bundles, was found in his car on Feb 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides him, CNB said its officers also arrested a 46-year-old Singaporean male suspected drug trafficker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to his arrest, the bureau said the suspect was spotted to have entered a car driven by the Malaysian man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CNB said its officers had escorted the Singaporean male suspect to his hideout and about 440gm of heroin, 116gm of ice, 4gm of cannabis, 110 Erimin-5 tablets, 102 ecstasy tablets and a bottle of methadone were found within the unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cInvestigations into the drug activities of both suspects are ongoing,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The estimated worth of the drugs seized in this operation is about S$73,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Massita Ahmad SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) — A 23-year-old male Malaysian driver was arrested as 2,898gm of cannabis and 125gm of \u2018ice\u2019 or crystal methamphetamine\u00a0were seized from an arriving Malaysia-registered car at Tuas Checkpoint on Feb 6. In its website Thursday, Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on the day, at about 6.50 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":60101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}