{"id":74976,"date":"2026-08-08T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=74976"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:39:01","slug":"8kg-cocaine-seized-from-vessel-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=74976","title":{"rendered":"8kg cocaine seized from vessel in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->Officers from the Police Coast Guard (PCG) and the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) <!-- -->seized more than 8kg of cocaine<!-- --> from a foreign-registered commercial vessel in Singapore waters on Aug 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement on Aug 7, police said they were alerted to a case of suspicious packages on board a foreign-registered commercial vessel at <!-- -->Raffles Reserved Anchorage<!-- -->,<!-- --> <!-- -->located south of the mainland, between Pulau Senang and Pulau Semakau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">PCG officers<b><i> <\/i><\/b>boarded the vessel and<!-- --> found eight packages<!-- --> believed to contain controlled drugs during a search. The packages were concealed in the sea chest strainers<!-- -->, which are heavy-duty marine filtration devices<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The packages tested positive for cocaine and were seized by CNB, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The drugs were t<!-- -->ransiting through Singapore<!-- --> and were not meant for the local market, CNB\u2019s preliminary investigations found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In Singapore, individuals<!-- --> <!-- -->who <!-- -->import or export more than 30g of cocaine<!-- --> may face the mandatory death penalty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/8kg-of-cocaine-seized-from-foreign-registered-commercial-vessel-in-singapore-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Officers from the Police Coast Guard (PCG) and the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) seized more than 8kg of cocaine from a foreign-registered commercial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74977,"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-74976","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\/74976","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=74976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}