{"id":38094,"date":"2026-03-21T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38094"},"modified":"2026-03-21T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:33:44","slug":"drugs-worth-over-s2-million-seized-in-two-land-checkpoint-smuggling-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38094","title":{"rendered":"Drugs worth over S$2 million seized in two land checkpoint smuggling cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Singaporean man, who was a passenger in a Malaysia-registered vehicle, was directed for enhanced checks on Wednesday. ICA officers detected a bundle believed to contain controlled drugs concealed along the 29-year-old&#8217;s waistline near his groin area.<\/p>\n<p>CNB officers later conducted further checks, which uncovered various drug paraphernalia in his possession. The bundle of about 81g of cannabis was seized.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs seized for both cases have an estimated worth of more than S$2 million, said ICA, adding that the heroin, Ice and cannabis seized could potentially feed the addiction of about 8,169 abusers for a week.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations for both cases are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Under Section 7 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, those who import into or export from Singapore more than 15g of diamorphine or \u201cpure heroin\u201d, or more than 250g of methamphetamine may face the death penalty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/drugs-woodlands-tuas-checkpoint-ica-2-million-men-arrested-6008341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singaporean man, who was a passenger in a Malaysia-registered vehicle, was directed for enhanced checks on Wednesday. ICA officers detected a bundle believed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--RyByT8yO--\/c_crop,h_682,w_1214,x_0,y_178\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/21\/image_7.png?itok=vm_s0n1L","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1078,14547,6646,3607,787,2160,13386,78],"class_list":["post-38094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-cases","tag-checkpoint","tag-drugs","tag-land","tag-million","tag-seized","tag-smuggling","tag-worth","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}