The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested 17 men and women from the mainland and South Korea on Sunday for selling or taking narcotics at a “drug party”, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.
According to Lei, the 17 suspects are aged between 19 and 53. Three of them are women, all aged 27, from South Korea while the others are mainlanders.
According to Lei, the police received a tip-off in the early hours of Sunday that a large number of people were using and selling drugs in a room in a nightclub in a casino-hotel in Zape.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded “drug party” suspects to a PJ bus outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi