A slew of recent arrests at the airport indicate the SAR may be getting used as a thoroughfare for drug smugglers.
drug trafficking
Operation Thunderbolt targeted triad gangs over three months, seizing millions of dollars in illegal funds in the run-up to National Day in October.
Three suspected members of a local Vietnamese drug gang, two men and a woman, were arrested between Wednesday night and on Thursday for drug trafficking.
Three suspects arrested on Friday for drug-related offences involving an estimated street value of more than MOP 1.26 million including 384 grammes of liquid ice hidden in facial mask packs.
A man and two women were caught on Wednesday during a drug deal involving 15.96 grammes of crystal methamphetamine (also commonly known as ice) with an estimated street value of about MOP 53,000.
Three men were arrested on Wednesday for drug trafficking involving 15.83 grammes of ice and one magu pill with an estimated street value of MOP 53,000.
A man was arrested on Monday for drug trafficking involving 498.6 grammes of cocaine with an estimated street value of MOP 1.64 million.
Two local men were arrested on Monday for buying drugs online from overseas and having them delivered by courier to Macao via the mainland.
A 17-year-old schoolgirl and her boyfriend were arrested after they collected a parcel sent through the post which contained cocaine weighing 13.2 grammes with a street value of MOP 44,000.
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