Filipina tourist jailed 12 months for 2.9 kg of cannabis at the airport
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.
Principal Magistrate Don So jailed 21-year-old Filipina tourist Czar Francine Miranda for 12 months
on 14 July 2026 after she pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Court to trafficking in cannabis.[1]Customs officers had arrested her on 21 February 2026 when she arrived from Bangkok and found 2,921
grams of cannabis buds in vacuum-sealed bags in her checked suitcase, a grinder with traces of
cannabis in her carry-on bag and a banned alternative smoking product in her handbag.[2][1]
Customs valued the drugs at about HK$600,000.[2][1]The department charged her with trafficking
under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance and with importing the smoking product under the Import and
Export Ordinance.[2][1]So also imposed one month’s imprisonment on the tobacco-device count to
run concurrently.[1]
Miranda had remained in custody since her arrest; The SUN HK reported that with remission she could
leave prison around December 2026.[1]
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Cannabis buds, grinder and alternative smoking product seized at the airport on 21 February 2026.Photo details
Customs' release rounded the seizure to about three kilograms while court reporting gave 2,921 grams exactly.
The SUN HK said Miranda had no fixed address in Hong Kong and could be released around December 2026 after time served; no official release date was published.
The e-cigarette import count carried one month, ordered to run concurrently with the drug term.
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.
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.