A Taiwanese man and a local woman were arrested separately yesterday for growing cannabis at their flat in La Marina on Rua Central da Areia Preta.[1] The pair were a 35-year-old Taiwanese man surnamed Chung who said he works in public relations and a 29-year-old jobless local woman surnamed Fok.[1] Officers put the duo under surveillance, then arrested Fok near their home while Chung was arrested in a casino hotel in Cotai.[1]
PJ officers searched the flat and seized a cannabis plant, a portable greenhouse, a heating lamp, several bottles of liquid plant food, cannabis oil, a digital scale and some drug-taking paraphernalia.[1] The seized cannabis plant was about 100 centimetres in height, and police said its weight and street market value would be confirmed later.[1] Chung admitted buying 10 cannabis seeds for 1,500 patacas from a man he did not know at a night entertainment venue in Zape about two months earlier.[1] He then bought growing equipment online and started growing cannabis at home.[1] Chung also admitted buying cannabis seeds at the end of last year from one of the suspects in the Rua de Sacadura Cabral drug case.[1]
The arrests were connected to the case of a Taiwanese man and a local man arrested in January for growing cannabis at their flat in Rua de Sacadura Cabral near Tap Seac.[1] The pair admitted having a habit of smoking cannabis.[1] Police were continuing to investigate the origin of the seeds, the whereabouts of other possible suspects and the duo’s possible involvement in drug deals.[1] The pair were transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office facing charges of illegal production of, and trafficking in narcotics and psychotropic substances as well as illegal possession of drug-taking paraphernalia.[1]
