Hong Kong police seize crack cocaine, ketamine in HK$8.3 million drugs raid on village house
- Police rounded on 29-year-old man as he left the property in Tai Po, expect to charge him with drug trafficking and manufacturing
- Detectives had their eye on the remote village house, suspecting a narcotics gang was using it to process hard drugs
Hong Kong police seized an estimated HK$8.3 million (US$1.1 million) worth of illegal drugs including crack cocaine when they raided and closed down a new manufacturing plant operating from a remote village house in the New Territories.
A 29-year-old man was arrested during the Narcotics Bureau operation in Tai Po on Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Inspector Ng Ka-lun of the bureau said on Thursday that officers moved on the village house after identifying it as a narcotics factory run by a drug-trafficking syndicate.
Officers stopped the suspect when he left the property shortly before 4.30pm and found two grams of crack cocaine on him, according to the force.
Police escorted the suspect back into the house from where they confiscated 1.6kg of cocaine, 3.59kg of crack cocaine and 1.65kg of ketamine along with soda powder, electronic scales and measuring cups. Also seized were electric appliances such as a fan, oven and dehumidifier that were used to dry the finished products.
