CNB seizes 6.5 kg of cannabis in Anchorvale Lane raid and arrests five
On 17 September 2024 narcotics officers raided a flat near Anchorvale Lane in Sengkang, seizing about 6.5 kg of cannabis plus 'Ice', Ecstasy, LSD stamps and Erimin-5 tablets. Five Singaporean men aged 19 to 39 were arrested for suspected trafficking, and three children found in the flat were placed with next of kin.
🇸🇬 Residential estate near Anchorvale Lane, Sengkang, Singapore
On the morning of 17 September 2024, Central Narcotics Bureau officers arrested a 26-year-old man
in the car park of a residential estate near Anchorvale Lane and then raided a flat in the same
estate, where four other men were arrested.[1]All five are Singaporeans aged 19 to 39, held for
suspected drug trafficking.[1][2]
The flat yielded about 6.15 kg of cannabis, 777 g of ‘Ice’, 281 g of Ecstasy, 693 LSD stamps and
1,378 Erimin-5 tablets, and a search of one suspect’s car in the estate added another 375 g of
cannabis plus more ‘Ice’, Ecstasy and Erimin-5.[1]Officers also recovered a small amount of
‘Ice’, LSD stamps and Erimin-5 tablets from one suspect’s official residence near Tampines North
Drive 1.[1]In total the operation netted about 6.5 kg of cannabis, a figure a wire-service
account corroborated, and CNB valued the whole cocktail of drugs at about S$333,000, enough for
some 1,480 abusers for a week.[1][2]
Three children aged 11, 13 and 15 were in the raided flat, and arrangements were made for their
welfare before they were placed in the care of next of kin.[1]Investigations were continuing.[1]
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Drugs including about 6.5 kg of cannabis seized in the CNB operation on 17 September 2024.Photo details
The reports name no charges or court outcome, and the bureau said investigations were continuing.
The unit also held 777 g of 'Ice', 281 g of Ecstasy, 693 LSD stamps and 1,378 Erimin-5 tablets, which are not cannabis figures and are kept out of the cannabis total here.
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