The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a man from the Chinese mainland for drug-trafficking and drug-taking last Monday, Chinese New Year’s Eve, PJ spokesman Cheong Siu Keong said during a special press conference on Wednesday.
Cheong identified the suspect as 39-year-old man surnamed Wu who claimed to be jobless.
On February 16, Cheong said that PJ officers received a report from a hotel in Cotai that a hotel employee had discovered suspected drug paraphernalia while cleaning a guestroom. Upon arriving at the scene, PJ officers arrested Wu, and seized 127.2 grams of crystal meth, 38.2 grams of ketamine, 35 ecstasy pills, what appeared to be a kind of “red drug powder”, drug taking paraphernalia, packaging tools and HK$20,000 – suspected proceeds from selling drugs.
Cheong said that the total value of the confirmed drugs was around 426,000 patacas.
According to Cheong, the investigation revealed that Wu entered Macau through the local airport on February 11. Due to strong indications that Wu was involved in drug use and trafficking, Cheong said that at the time of Wednesday’s press conference PJ officers were still tracing the source of the narcotics and looking for other individuals possibly connected to the case.
Wu was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) on Wednesday, facing charges of drug-trafficking, drug-taking, and possession of drug taking paraphernalia.
Evidence displayed at the PJ headquarters in Zape on Wednesday shows drugs, packaging tools, drug paraphernalia and HK$20,000 in cash. – Photo: Armindo Neves
