Two charged over 8.8 kg of cannabis buds at HK airport
Hong Kong Customs found 3.3 kg of cannabis buds and 220 duty-unpaid cigarettes on a 43-year-old woman and 5.5 kg of buds on a 41-year-old man arriving from Bangkok at the airport on 15 and 16 October 2026. Both were charged with trafficking and due in West Kowloon court on 17 October.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok · Hong Kong
- Arrested
- 2
- Charged
- 2
- Cannabis
- 8.8 kg
Hong Kong Customs detected two drug trafficking cases at the airport on 16
October 2026, seizing about 8.8 kg of suspected cannabis buds and 220
duty-unpaid cigarettes.[1]
Officers found about 3.3 kg of buds and the cigarettes in the carry-on baggage
of a 43-year-old mainland woman during an anti-narcotics operation.[1] In
the second case, a 41-year-old mainland man arriving from Bangkok on 15
October was found with about 5.5 kg of buds in his carry-on.[1]
The woman was charged with trafficking in a dangerous drug and possession of
dutiable goods, and the man with trafficking; both cases were to go before
West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on 17 October.[1]
Sources
- Hong Kong Customs detects two drug trafficking cases involving incoming passengers at airport (with photos). Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, 16 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- Only the official Customs release was found; no independent account of the seizures was available.
- The release gives no arrival flight for the woman in the first case; only the man's arrival from Bangkok on 15 October is stated.
- The HK$1.83 million estimate covers the cannabis and the 220 cigarettes together, so no value figure is recorded.
- The 220 duty-unpaid cigarettes are described in the text and not counted in the cannabis figures.
- No outcome of the 17 October court appearance was reported.
