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