Woman held at Hong Kong airport with 16 kg of cannabis buds from Vancouver
Police arrested a 28-year-old Hong Kong finance worker at Hong Kong International Airport on 28 June 2025 after finding 16 kg of suspected cannabis buds and about 15 kg of suspected methamphetamine in her suitcases on arrival from Vancouver. She was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, and officers valued the 31 kg of drugs at about HK$12 million.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok · Hong Kong
Hong Kong police arrested a 28-year-old finance worker at Hong Kong
International Airport on Saturday 28 June 2025 after she arrived on a flight
from Vancouver, Canada.[1]Officers from the narcotics bureau stopped her in
the airport arrivals hall in the afternoon and examined her two carry-on
suitcases.[2]
The suitcases held 16 kg of suspected cannabis buds along with about 15 kg of
suspected “Ice”, the street name for methamphetamine, packed in eight bags.[1]Police put the total street value of the 31 kg of drugs at about HK$12 million.[2]
She was arrested on suspicion of trafficking in a dangerous drug and detained
for investigation.[2]Police said she was to be charged and brought to West
Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on 30 June 2025.[2]Officers said she spent five
days in Vancouver before carrying the drugs back, having taken HK$20,000 to work
as a drug courier after being recruited through an online dating app, and that
they believed she was in debt.[3]
Inspector Ng Ka-wai of the narcotics bureau said trafficking in a dangerous drug
carries a maximum penalty of a HK$5 million fine and life imprisonment on
conviction.[4]
The 15 kg of suspected Ice and 16 kg of suspected cannabis buds were split into
eight bags hidden in two suitcases.[5]
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Source: South China Morning PostThe 31 kg of suspected Ice and cannabis buds seized at the airport, laid out in a police handout photo. Photo: 張開裕/on.cc東網Photo details
The 16 kg of cannabis buds is stated as approximate; no exact weight was published.
The drugs are described as suspected cannabis buds and suspected Ice, with no laboratory confirmation or separate value for the cannabis reported; the HK$12 million figure covers the combined 31 kg of drugs.
The woman was reported as due to be charged and appear at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts on 30 June 2025, but no account of that hearing or of any later court outcome was found.
The accounts of her pay and recruitment through an online dating app come from police briefings to reporters rather than a written police statement.
No source gives the flight number or the exact time of the interception beyond the afternoon of 28 June 2025.
Hong Kong Customs arrested two mainland Chinese women, aged 50 and 54, at Hong Kong International Airport on 6 November 2026 after finding about 3.5 kg of suspected cannabis buds in each woman's hand luggage. Both had flown in from Bangkok, and Customs put the combined value of the two seizures at about HK$1.4 million.
Yau Tsim police arrested two local men aged 22 and 24 in an industrial unit on Ng Fong Street, San Po Kong, on 2 November 2026. Officers seized about 4.5 kg of suspected cannabis worth about HK$950,000, plus scales and a sealing machine.
Police stopped a suspicious private car outside 221 Gloucester Road in Wan Chai in the early hours of 2 November 2026 and arrested the 34-year-old driver on suspicion of drug trafficking. Officers seized about 1.6 grams of suspected cannabis buds alongside small amounts of suspected methamphetamine and cocaine, with all the drugs together valued at about HK$3,200.
Police stopped a 22-year-old mainland Chinese man in the arrivals hall of Hong Kong International Airport on 1 November 2026 and seized 30 packets of suspected cannabis buds weighing about 9 kg. The man was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and detained, with police valuing the seizure at about HK$1.3 million.
