Hong Kong resident jailed 20 months for 4.999 kg of cannabis at the airport
John Ulrik Aboy, 23, was jailed for 20 months at West Kowloon Court on 20 July 2026 after pleading guilty to trafficking 4,999 grams of cannabis buds found in his suitcase when he arrived from Bangkok on 20 December 2025; Magistrate Jeffrey Sze applied a one-third discount from a 30-month starting point.
Magistrate Jeffrey Sze sentenced 23-year-old John Ulrik Aboy to 20 months in prison on 20 July 2026
after he pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Court to trafficking in a dangerous drug.[1]Customs had
arrested him on 20 December 2025 when he arrived from Bangkok and found 4,999 grams of cannabis
buds in vacuum-sealed bags in his checked suitcase at Hong Kong International Airport.[2][1]
Customs put the seizure at about HK$1 million.[2]Sze adopted a 30-month starting point and
reduced it by one third for the guilty plea.[1]The SUN HK described Aboy as a Filipino resident
of Hong Kong who was stopped at the arrival hall baggage examination counter.[1]
Under Hong Kong law, trafficking in a dangerous drug can carry life imprisonment and a HK$5 million
fine.[2]
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Czar Francine Miranda, 21, was sentenced at West Kowloon Court on 14 July 2026 to 12 months' imprisonment for trafficking 2,921 grams of cannabis buds found in her luggage when she arrived from Bangkok on 21 February 2026, plus one month concurrent for importing a banned e-cigarette.
On 2 July 2026 the High Court sentenced Tse To-chiu, 36, to six years and ten months in prison after he pleaded guilty to trafficking 104.2 kilogrammes of herbal cannabis found in his light goods vehicle at a Tsing Yi car park in July 2024; the judge treated him as a courier and applied a full one-third discount from a ten-year-three-month starting point.
Charged 1Cannabis 104.2 kgPrison 6 years 10 months
A traveller received two months overall after convictions for possessing CBD, possessing ketamine and having injection equipment. Officers had found two personal-care bottles containing about 5 g of CBD, about 2.2 g of ketamine and ten syringes after her arrival from the United States in March.
Chor Lui’s two-month prison sentence stood after he sold an undercover officer two cannabis cigarettes containing 0.24 g for HK$30. The appeal judge considered his prior drug convictions and the commercial sale in a discotheque important despite the small amount, while recognising the then-lower sentencing benchmark for herbal cannabis than resin.
