13-year-old boy among 17 nabbed in CNB raid
By Saifulbahri Ismail | Posted: 07 September 2011 2042 hrs
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
