SINGAPORE : A 13-year-old expatriate boy was one of
several foreign teenagers arrested on Wednesday, for allegedly
consuming drugs.
The teen was the youngest of 17 people
nabbed.
A 37-year-old drug trafficker, his associate and 15
of his clients were arrested in an 18-hour blitz by the Central
Narcotics Bureau (CNB).
The suspected drug trafficker, a male Singapore Permanent Resident
(PR), was believed to be peddling cannabis mainly to youths and
expatriates studying in international schools and working
here.
For more than five months, CNB had been monitoring the suspected
trafficker who was peddling drugs from his residence in Ang Mo
Kio.
Eleven of the drug abusers are foreign nationals from countries
like the United States, United Kingdom, France, New Zealand,
Malaysia and Indonesia.
In all, officers seized drugs amounting to some 69 grammes of
cannabis.
If convicted, the drug trafficker could be jailed up to 20 years
and given 15 strokes of the cane.
All other offenders suspected of consumption, possession or
trafficking in a controlled drug will be investigated
further.
- CNA/ms