Macau airport arrest of Malaysian, 18, with 6.279 kg cannabis buds
Macau's Judiciary Police arrested an 18-year-old Malaysian man at the airport on 2 December 2025 and seized 12 vacuum-sealed packets of cannabis buds weighing 6,279 grams, valued by police at 6.27 million patacas. Police said a Malaysian group recruited him to carry the drugs from Thailand via the Philippines and planned to move them on to Hong Kong.
Macau’s Judiciary Police arrested an 18-year-old Malaysian man on suspicion of
trafficking6,279 grams of cannabis buds valued at 6.27 million patacas.[1]Police spokesman Chao Teng Hin said the suspect, surnamed Goh, said he was
jobless.[1]
Officers stopped Goh at Macau’s airport as he entered the city with a suitcase
of cannabis buds and prepared to leave in a car the group had arranged.[1]Twelve vacuum-sealed packets of cannabis buds wrapped in silver foil were found
in the suitcase, and police put their street value at 6.27 million patacas.[1]
Police said intelligence and cross-border risk checks identified a trafficking
group planning to send a courier, known in Cantonese as “airplane pig”, with
drugs from Thailand via the Philippines to Macau for onward distribution in Hong
Kong and neighbouring regions.[1]Chao said Goh was recruited in Malaysia,
collected the suitcase in Thailand and flew on to the Philippines before
arriving in Macau, where he planned to pass the drugs on to Hong Kong
immediately.[1]The driver of the car meant to carry Goh was initially ruled
out as an accomplice, and police later confirmed the seized drugs were cannabis.[1]
Under questioning Goh admitted trafficking the buds and said he had been
promised 10,000 Malaysian ringgit, about 19,300 patacas.[1]He was transferred
to the Public Prosecutions Office facing a drug-trafficking charge.[1]
Photos and video
Judiciary Police officers escort the hooded suspect from Malaysia to a police van outside the PJ headquarters in Zape. Photo: Ada LeiPhoto details
The article does not print the arrest date; it says Tuesday, which is 2 December 2025 because the 3 December press conference is described as yesterday and the story ran on 4 December 2025.
The 6,279 grams is the weight of the 12 sealed packets as reported; no separate net cannabis weight was published.
The 6.27 million patacas is the Judiciary Police's street-value estimate, not a sale price.
No full name beyond the surname Goh was published.
No court outcome beyond the transfer to the Public Prosecutions Office was reported.
Only one accessible account of this event was found; the Judiciary Police statement and any Chinese-language coverage could not be opened or found.
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Judiciary Police arrested two local men, a driver aged 29 and a maintenance technician aged 27, in Macau's northern district on 2 March 2026 and found 3.06 grams of cannabis buds split between a flat and a motorcycle helmet box. Both tested positive for drugs, police valued the cannabis at about 3,000 patacas, and prosecutors received them on trafficking, drug-use and paraphernalia charges.
Judiciary Police arrested a Hong Kong woman at Macau airport after customs found 17.371 kg of marijuana buds wrapped in foil in her luggage, valued at about MOP17 million. Police said a trafficking gang recruited her and that onward transshipment through Macau was still being investigated.
Judiciary Police arrested a 19-year-old Malaysian man at Macau International Airport on 25 September 2025 after finding 16 packets of cannabis flower weighing about 8,986.5 grams including packaging. Police valued the haul at about MOP9 million and said a Malaysian syndicate recruited him to carry it from Bangkok to Hong Kong via South Korea for RM5,000.
