{"id":87176,"date":"2026-09-23T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87176"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T01:15:03","slug":"batam-nabs-singaporean-over-smuggling-of-drug-filled-vape-cartridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87176","title":{"rendered":"Batam nabs Singaporean over smuggling of drug-filled vape cartridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">JAKARTA \u2013 The law enforcement authorities in Batam in the Riau Islands have detained a Singaporean woman for attempting to smuggle 40 vape cartridges containing etomidate \u2013 a non-barbiturate hypnotic and class II narcotic in Indonesia \u2013 known as Kpods in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Officers from the Batam Customs and Excise Office detained the woman, identified by her initials WSB, when she arrived at 10pm local time on Sept 3 at the city\u2019s Harbour Bay Ferry Terminal in Batu Ampar district aboard the last ferry from Singapore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/se-asia\/batam-nabs-singaporean-over-smuggling-drug-filled-vape-cartridges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA \u2013 The law enforcement authorities in Batam in the Riau Islands have detained a Singaporean woman for attempting to smuggle 40 vape cartridges containing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"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-87176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176","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=87176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}