A man arrested last year for dealing in heroin has been sent to
the reformative training centre or RTC.
Mohamed Imran Masruri, then 18 years old, was nabbed with three
others at Yung Sheng Road, in the Boon Lay area, on suspicion of
consuming controlled drugs.
Nine straws of heroin, weighing 4.13 grams, were found on him,
which he had planned to sell.
He had been using heroin since last June and had bought the drugs
last September for $300 from a female trafficker known as
Ayu.
He re-packed the drugs into 17 straws and charged his clients $30
per straw.
Police swooped in on him and his friends while they were consuming
the drugs at a staircase landing.
His lawyer V Ramakrishnan told the court his client came from a
respectable family and was the youngest of four brothers, including
a police officer.
Mr Ramakrishnan said the Institute of Technical Education student
was remorseful and should be spared a stiff sentence.
Imran had faced two charges, one for trafficking in heroin and the
other for consuming morphine.
He could have been jailed up to 20 years for the first charge and
given up to 15 strokes of the cane.
For the second charge, he could have been jailed up to 10 years and
fined up to $20,000.
On March 21, he pleaded guilty and was sent to the RTC, where he
could spend up to three years.
Mr Ramakrishnan told MediaCorp his client can be released in 18
months on good behaviour.
-- 938Live
