Two men held with 4,113 g of cannabis and over S$420,000 in cash
Police called to a Holland Drive flat on 17 January 2026 led CNB to arrest a 47-year-old with 4,113 grams of cannabis and S$420,383.30 in cash; a linked arrest the next day in Choa Chu Kang added ketamine and methamphetamine but not more cannabis.
On 17 January 2026 Singapore Police Force officers responding to a call for assistance at a
home near Holland Drive found suspected controlled drugs and alerted the Central Narcotics
Bureau (CNB).[1][2]
CNB arrested a 47-year-old Singaporean man and seized about 4,113 grams of cannabis, 135
grams of methamphetamine, 31 grams of ecstasy, 40 Erimin-5 tablets, paraphernalia and
S$420,383.30 in cash from the unit.[1][2]
Follow-up on 18 January led officers to arrest a 29-year-old Singaporean in the same area;
a search of his Choa Chu Kang home recovered ketamine, methamphetamine and ecstasy plus
S$180.20, without additional cannabis in that second search.[1][2]CNB put the total drugs
seized across both days at more than S$123,000 and noted that trafficking above 500 grams of
cannabis can draw the mandatory death penalty.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Neither source released the suspects' names; investigations were still ongoing when CNB published on 20 January 2026.
The 393 g of ketamine, 236 g of methamphetamine and other tablets seized across both men are excluded from figures.kg_seized, which counts only cannabis.
No charge or court outcome had been reported in the sources opened here.
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