{"id":47022,"date":"2026-04-24T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47022"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:33:43","slug":"portuguese-man-nabbed-at-changi-airport-for-allegedly-smuggling-36kg-of-cannabis-into-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47022","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese man nabbed at Changi Airport for allegedly smuggling 36kg of cannabis into Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-body\" role=\"article\">\n                <!-- Content data --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A Portuguese man was arrested at Changi Airport on Tuesday for attempting to smuggle more than 36kg of cannabis into Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old arrived in Singapore on April 14 and was slated to leave the next day, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a statement on Wednesday (April 22).<\/p>\n<p>The man was made to undergo further checks by K-9 police officers at the Changi Airport Terminal 2 Baggage South Red\/Green Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple packets believed to contain controlled drugs in the man\u2019s luggage were found by ICA officers, the statement added. Central Narcotics Bureau officers later made further checks.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 68 packets were found to contain 36.3kg of cannabis, ICA said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who imports into or exports from Singapore more than 500g of cannabis can get the death penalty. &#8211; The Straits Times\/ANN<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/aseanplus\/aseanplus-news\/2026\/04\/22\/portuguese-man-nabbed-at-changi-airport-for-allegedly-smuggling-36kg-of-cannabis-into-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 SINGAPORE: A Portuguese man was arrested at Changi Airport on Tuesday for attempting to smuggle more than 36kg of cannabis into Singapore. The 25-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47023,"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-47022","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\/47022","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=47022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}