Judiciary Police arrested a Hong Kong man suspected of selling home-made cookies containing cannabis buds in a bar in Taipa.[1] The man is a 49-year-old blue-card holder surnamed Lau who had worked as a DJ in a Taipa bar for five years.[1] Police said a tip-off a month earlier alleged that someone in a Taipa bar bought cannabis buds in Hong Kong, smuggled them to Macau and baked them into cookies for sale in the bar.[1] A Hong Kong outlet corroborates that the 49-year-old worked as a DJ in Taipa for five years and allegedly smuggled buds from Hong Kong to process into food for profit.[2]
Officers intercepted Lau at the Macau checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge in the early morning on Wednesday and found 8.35 grams of cannabis buds in his underwear.[1] A search of his Taipa flat seized two packets of cannabis buds weighing 0.58 grams and drug paraphernalia, plus 241.3 grams of cookie dough mixed with cannabis buds and 74.5 grams of cookies.[1] Officers found a total of 8.93 grams of cannabis buds on him and in his flat, plus 315.8 grams of suspected cannabis-mixed dough and cookies.[2]
Police valued the cannabis buds and cookies found on Lau and in his flat at about 9,000 patacas in total.[1] Lau admitted drug trafficking and said he had learnt online how to mix cannabis buds with flour and oats to bake cookies for his own use.[1] Lau tested negative for drugs, while police believed he had been selling the cannabis cookies for about two months.[1]
Lau was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office facing drug trafficking charges.[1] Investigators charged Lau with drug trafficking and sent the case to the procuratorate for handling.[3]
