A slew of recent arrests at the airport indicate the SAR may be getting used as a thoroughfare for drug smugglers.
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Six suspects arrested, including one carrying parcel of potato starch sent from overseas with drugs hidden inside.
Two men were arrested after being found with 7,400 ml of liquid cocaine hidden in eight red wine bottles.
A Vietnamese couple was arrested on Sunday night in the northern district for drug trafficking, and 239.9 grammes of marijuana with an estimated street value of about MOP 239,900 was seized.
Two men were arrested on Saturday for their alleged involvement in an express mail drug case in which the Judiciary Police (PJ) seized 14 grammes of Ice hidden in toys with an estimated street value of MOP 42,000.
A local man and a Filipino were arrested this week for buying and selling a newly classified type of drug commonly known as “K2” with police seizing a total of 7.39 grammes of the drug with an estimated street value of MOP 22,000, Judiciary Police (PJ) Leng Kam Lon said during Thursday’s special press conference.
Two female drug mules from Guinea have been caught smuggling 130 pellets of cocaine weighing 2,080 grammes worth a total of about 6.8 million patacas as they entered Macau via the airport.
Macau is one of the places mentioned in an investigation headed by Spanish judge Pilar de Lara that aims to track down money from a Lugo (Galicia, Spain) drug trafficking criminal organization.
For the second time this week, police have arrested a Brazilian woman for smuggling cocaine into Macau.
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