Three men and a woman were arrested between Tuesday and yesterday in three individual drug trafficking cases, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special press conference yesterday.
According to the spokesperson, a 21-year-old local man surnamed Hong was arrested on Tuesday night for drug trafficking. The police received a tip-off about a week ago that a man was frequently smuggling drugs into Macau from the mainland.
The spokesperson said the police approached the suspect on Tuesday night when he was entering the city via the Barrier Gate checkpoint. The police found a bag of Ice on him. The drugs weighed 17.83 grammes and had a street value of 54,000 patacas.
