A Hong Kong man has been arrested for DUI after taking ketamine, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday, while a local man has been arrested for selling the ketamine to him.
The Hong Kong suspect surnamed O told the police that he’s jobless. He is in his forties.
The suspect who allegedly sold O the drugs is a local man surnamed Iao who told the police he is a labourer. He is also in his forties.
According to Wong, at around 1 a.m. on Sunday, January 26, PSP officers on patrol in Fai Chi Kei district checked a car whose driver, O, appeared to be in a daze.
Officers searching O’s car found three sealed plastic packs of white powder and white powder wrapped in paper, totalling 4.28 grams, which O admitted belonged to him. O also admitted that he has a drug habit, Wong said, adding that the white powder was later confirmed to be ketamine.
O said that he bought the drug from a stranger he had met online who claimed that he could provide drugs, and O made an appointment with him to meet on January 25 at 9 p.m. at the coach parking area in front of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoint building, where he bought four packs of ketamine from him for HK$2,500, Wong said.
O then drove to Fai Chi Kei where, after stopping the car alongside the kerb, he took some of the drugs that he had just bought, until the PSP officers appeared, Wong said, adding that he told the officers that he was only taking but not selling drugs.
O was then taken to the public hospital for a urine test, which came back positive for ketamine, Wong said.
After scrutinising the police forces’ citywide CCTV surveillance system, Wong said, PSP officers succeeded in identifying the person who sold O drugs, and arrested him, Iao, on January 28 at around 7 p.m. at the Qingmao pedestrian checkpoint when he was about to re-enter Macau.
Under questioning, Iao claimed that he was not aware that O had taken the drugs, and also denied that he had sold drugs to anyone, Wong said, adding that Iao told the police that O was his friend, but O told the police that he had not known Iao before the drug deal.
Both have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP). O faces charges of drug taking and driving under the influence (DUI), while Iao faces a charge of drug trafficking, Wong said.
Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng looks on during yesterday’s regular press conference at the PSP pressroom in Zape. – Photo: Ginnie Liang
