Police seize HK$9.2 million drugs in Tuen Mun raid
RTHK · 3 SOURCESabout 1 hour ago2 MIN
Summary
Hong Kong police said they arrested three men aged 19 to 26 after stopping them near a village house in Fuk Hang Tsuen, Tuen Mun, and later uncovering suspected drugs worth about HK$9.2 million in two nearby units. Officers said one unit was used to store finished drugs, while another was believed to be a drug-manufacturing workshop where liquid material and clothing soaked in chemicals were being processed into ketamine.
Key Points
- Police stopped three suspicious men outside a village house in Fuk Hang Tsuen, Tuen Mun, on Saturday, 22 June, before escorting them to a unit under their control.
- Officers seized about 14 kilograms of suspected ketamine, about 2 kilograms of suspected heroin, and 151 suspected etomidate vape cartridges from the first unit.
- Further investigation led police to a second nearby rented unit, where a strong chemical smell, tools, large plastic trays, soaked clothing and other substances were found.
- Police said about 40 litres of suspected liquid ketamine raw material at the workshop could be converted into roughly 6 kilograms of ketamine after chemical processing.
- The three arrested men, all reportedly unemployed, are being charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs and manufacturing dangerous drugs, and are due in Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts on 25 June.
Why It Matters
Police said the case showed traffickers were using a “two-unit” setup to separate storage from production and reduce the risk of being shut down in a single raid. Investigators also said they had, for the first time, found a method in which drugs were dissolved into liquid and soaked into clothing before being chemically restored, suggesting a more concealed trafficking technique.