Two local male university students were arrested on Tuesday near the Central Park in Taipa in a cannabis case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chong Kam Leong said at a special press conference yesterday.
The police seized cannabis weighing a total of 16.05 grammes with an estimated market price of about 16,000 patacas from one of them.
The 21-year-old local residents, surnamed Sin and Aquino, are enrolled in different local universities.
According to Chong, the Public Security Police (PSP) referred a drug case to the Judiciary Police on Tuesday after a cabbie had told the police about a passenger who had left a flat bag on the vehicle’s back seat on the previous day. PSP officers discovered a cannabis joint inside the bag and referred the case to the Judiciary Police for further investigation.
Chong said that PJ officers identified the two suspects and arrested them near the Central Park on Tuesday night and seized 0.9 grammes of cannabis, several yuan notes and drug-taking paraphernalia from Sin. The officers later searched Sin’s home in the neighbourhood and found 15.15 grammes of cannabis as well as drug-taking paraphernalia. The duo tested positive for drugs and they admitted to taking drugs. Sin told the police that he bought the cannabis recently in a night entertainment venue in the mainland for 3,000 yuan and smuggled it to Macau. Sin admitted that he gave some of the drugs to Aquino for his own use.
Sin was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) yesterday. Both face a charge of taking narcotics and psychotropic substances while Sin also faces charges of drug trafficking and possession of drug-taking paraphernalia, according to Chong.
The hooded drug suspect is escorted by Judiciary Police (PJ) officers from the PJ headquarters to a PJ vehicle in Zape yesterday. Photos: Camy Tam
Evidence seized from one of the two drug suspects such as cigarette papers, cannabis, a smartphone and yuan notes is displayed at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters yesterday.
