Repeat offender jailed 16 years 10 months over 459 g cannabis parcel
State Courts sentenced Alger Aw Wei Jun, 25, on 26 May 2026 to 16 years and 10 months' jail and 12 strokes of the cane after he collected at least 459.2 g of cannabis for a friend and was arrested in a Central Narcotics Bureau raid; he also admitted meth possession and use.
Alger Aw Wei Jun, a 25-year-old Singaporean repeat drug offender, was sentenced on 26 May 2026 to
16 years and 10 months’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for possessing cannabis for the purpose
of trafficking, after also admitting to methamphetamine possession and consumption.[1][2]
On the night of 5 August 2024 his friend Hidayatullah Taruna Jaya Taruna asked him via WhatsApp to
collect a “book”—cannabis—and deliver it for cash.[1][2]Aw took the bag from a staircase landing
in an Ang Mo Kio public housing block on the morning of 6 August and waited for further
instructions.[1][2]At about 2.20 p.m. that day Central Narcotics Bureau officers raided the flat
where he was and arrested him with a block of at least 459.2 g of cannabis, plus methamphetamine
whose use his urine confirmed.[1][2]
Aw had been convicted in March 2021 of meth consumption and trafficking, so the mandatory minimum
for this cannabis charge was 10 years’ jail and 10 strokes rather than the lower first-offender
threshold.[1][2]The prosecution had sought 16 years 10 months to 19 years and 12 to 13 strokes;
the judge imposed the bottom of that range.[1][2]Aw had been remanded since August 2024 because
no one could stand bail for him.[1][2]
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Cannabis seized in the case, as published by Mothership citing the Central Narcotics Bureau.Photo details
Singapore permanent resident Anton Andrievsky, 28, was sentenced on 16 September 2026 to 27 months' jail after a parcel from Britain with at least 136 g of cannabis was intercepted at SingPost Centre in September 2025; CNB officers forced entry to his Toa Payoh flat when he refused to open the door.
Singapore's High Court sentenced Khalid bin K K Mohamad to death on two trafficking charges, one for 624.5 g of cannabis found in his Telok Blangah flat. The court rejected his claim that the drugs were for his own use.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 624.5 gPrison death sentence on each of two charges
Tan Xianglong was jailed for three years and ten months on 29 August 2024 for possessing at least 216 g of cannabis he had planted in his estranged wife's car in October 2023, hoping the 500 g-plus load would draw the death penalty and speed his divorce.
Arrested 2Cannabis 216.17 gPrison 3 years 10 months
Seet Poh Jing, a former property agent, was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty on 2 April 2024 for trafficking 4,509.2 g of cannabis mixture found in his car in June 2018, after the judge rejected his claim that the drugs were for research.