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A 43-year-old man was charged for the alleged importation of vaporisers and possession of etomidate vaporiser pods (Kpods) on July 9.<\/p>\n
Kevin Ng Jiaren was detained by Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers at Woodlands Checkpoint on July 6 after he was found with 29 vapes.<\/p>\n
Health Sciences Authority (HSA) officers who took over investigations later seized another 228 vape pods from Ng’s home.<\/p>\n
In a news release on Thursday (July 16), HSA said that subsequent laboratory testing confirmed that the seized pods contained etomidate.<\/p>\n
According to the agency, the vapes and Kpods were allegedly intended for supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ng was remanded for a week to assist with investigations.<\/p>\n
He will appear in court again on Aug 25.<\/p>\n
HSA reminded would-be perpetrators that it takes a serious view of vaporiser and etomidate trafficking offences.<\/p>\n
Under the Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act<\/a>, etomidate and its analogues are listed as specified psychoactive substances in the schedule.<\/p>\n Those found guilty of importing such substances could face up to 20 years’ jail and receive up to 15 strokes of the cane.<\/p>\n Suppliers could also face jail of up to 10 years and receive up to five strokes of the cane.<\/p>\n [[nid:738861]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 43-year-old man was charged for the alleged importation of vaporisers and possession of etomidate vaporiser pods (Kpods) on July 9. Kevin Ng Jiaren was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69380,"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-69379","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\/69379","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=69379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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