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SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man has been arrested after Jakarta police and customs officials jointly raided a home in the Indonesian capital that was allegedly being used as an etomidate vape factory, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old, identified by the initials LHM and also known as Hayden, is suspected of playing a key role in producing etomidate vape cartridges at the facility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Such vapes are commonly known as Kpods in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n Thousands of vape cartridges and laboratory equipment were seized during the raid on Friday (Jul 17).\u00a0<\/p>\n The chief of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police said the raid on the home in North Jakarta followed the seizure of 2.2kg of etomidate by airport customs, news outlet Antara reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another police spokesperson told news outlet IDN Times that the suspect had been “given a target of producing 500 etomidate cartridges a day”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigations are ongoing to determine how many vape cartridges were produced and how long the operation had been running, reports said.<\/p>\n CNA has contacted Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more information on the arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man has been arrested after Jakarta police and customs officials jointly raided a home in the Indonesian capital that was allegedly being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--2yeZ9WWz--\/c_crop,h_464,w_826,x_0,y_113\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2024\/06\/11\/handcuff_file_photo.png?itok=4vZ_AL9p","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1344,4623,4835,6346,5575,1273,10722,1293,342],"class_list":["post-69786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-arrested","tag-bust","tag-etomidate","tag-factory","tag-jakarta","tag-police","tag-reports","tag-singaporean","tag-vape","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69786","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=69786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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