Youth drug trafficker sent to Reformative Training Centre
By Andre Yeo | Posted: 25 May 2010 2149 hrs
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SINGAPORE : A youth arrested last year for dealing in heroin has been sent to the Reformative Training Centre (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 grammes - which he had planned to sell, were found on him.
He had been using heroin since last June and had bought the drugs last September for S$300 from a female trafficker known as Ayu. He re-packed the drugs into 17 straws and charged his clients S$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 S$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 may be released in 18 months on good behaviour.
- CNA/al
