Sai Kung car mechanic arrested for hiding over $20 million of heroin in old car

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Officers from the Police Drug Investigation Division conducted an anti-drug operation on 24 January and arrested a man working as a car mechanic in Nam Wai Village, Sai Kung. They seized about 14.82 kilograms of heroin with a market value of about $20 million. Private cars were used for temporary drug storage.

At about 6:00 pm Monday officers of the Narcotics Investigation Bureau raided a village house in Nam Wai Village, Sai Kung, and detained a man inside the house. They seized 27 bricks of heroin weighing about 10.26 kilograms in total as well as drug packaging kits. Detectives immediately arrested the man on suspicion of drug trafficking.

^{Some of the drugs and packing paraphernalia Photo: HKPF}

Detectives escorted the arrested man to an open-air parking lot near his apartment and searched an old unlicensed private car belonging to him and parked in the parking lot. As a result, the detectives seized another 12 bricks in the trunk of the car. The heroin, weighing about 4.56 kilograms in total.

The 43-year-old man reportedly works as a car mechanic in the village. A Senior Inspector of the Police Drug Investigation Division, pointed out that in this case, drug dealers would use some old private cars that were parked in parking lots as temporary drug storage warehouses, in an attempt to conceal their drug trafficking activities. Police appealed to members of the public or those who manage car parks to contact the police immediately if they find suspicious vehicles parked for a long time or different persons approaching the vehicles in a suspicious manner. The arrested man has been charged with two counts of drug trafficking and appeared in Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts this morning (26/1).