{"id":42610,"date":"2026-04-08T05:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42610"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:50:36","slug":"south-korean-man-27-arrested-at-changi-airport-with-2000-heat-sticks-and-130-vapes-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42610","title":{"rendered":"South Korean man, 27, arrested at Changi Airport with 2,000 heat sticks and 130 vapes, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A South Korean national was arrested at Changi Airport after attempting to smuggle heat sticks and vapes into Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Monday (April 6), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said the 27-year-old man was nabbed on March 27 at Terminal 2.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to checks, the man told ICA officers that he had no items to declare, but subsequent checks found anomalies in the scanned image of his belongings.<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation, officers found more than 2,000 heat sticks \u2014 also known as heat-not-burn tobacco \u2014 and over 130 vaporisers and related components.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested in connection with the case and referred to the Health Sciences Authority for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"537\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FImmigration.Checkpoints.Authority%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02XpRTuQDwdts6ixYR62JUK3wFhgBnUG1xP4ksgtzgDxdDgjCyRnxKdYgmf1o8UvRZl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[[nid:732226]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:dana.leong@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dana.leong@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/south-korean-man-arrested-changi-airport-smuggle-heat-sticks-vapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean national was arrested at Changi Airport after attempting to smuggle heat sticks and vapes into Singapore. In a Facebook post on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42610","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=42610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}