Over 6.7 kg of heroin seized in Singapore operation

SINGAPORE: Drugs with an estimated street value of S $480,000, including more than 6.7 kg of heroin, were seized during an operation conducted by the Central Narcotics Bureau CNB in Jurong West on Tuesday. Officials also seized 9 g of Ice, 22 g of cannabis, 102 Erimin-5 tablets and 14 bottles of methadone, according to CNB in a news release on Thursday.

Four people, aged between 36 and 54, were arrested for drug offences.

On Tuesday afternoon, CNB officers arrested a 49 year-old man and a 36-year-old woman in a residential block near Jurong West Street 93 for suspected drug trafficking offences.

As officers moved in to arrest both suspects, the man put up a violent struggle and necessary force was used to subdue him, CNB said.

Several packets and straws containing about 70 g of heroin were recovered from the man.

Officers then raided the man's residence in the same block, where two men aged 51 and 54 were arrested. They recovered around 7 g of heroin, two Erimin- 5 tablets and five bottles of methadone from various locations in the unit.

Prior to both men's arrest, suspected controlled drugs were believed to have been thrown out of the unit's window, CNB said. Officers recovered the substances, which included packets containing about 32 g of heroin.