{"id":97712,"date":"2026-11-05T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97712"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:16:45","slug":"64-year-old-man-arrested-for-suspected-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97712","title":{"rendered":"64-year-old man arrested for suspected drug trafficking"},"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\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A <!-- -->64-year-old Singaporean<!-- --> man was arrested for suspected drug trafficking on <!-- -->Nov 3<!-- -->, with about 1.5kg of cannabis among other drugs seized during a raid by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">During the arrest, the man allegedly <!-- -->struggled violently and attacked an officer, biting the officer\u2019s thigh through his jeans. He also spat on two other officers<!-- -->, said CNB in a media statement on <!-- -->Nov 5<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The anti-drug operation took place in a residential unit in the vicinity of Marsiling Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The controlled drugs seized included 1<!-- -->,554g of cannabis, 166g of Ice and 25g of Ecstasy<!-- --> tablets. In total, they were estimated to be worth more than <!-- -->$55,000<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Cash totalling $<!-- -->356<!-- --> was also seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">All three officers received immediate medical attention including assessment for potential infectious diseases, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Anyone found guilty of trafficking more than <!-- -->500g of cannabis could face the death penalty<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Investigations into the drug activities of the suspect are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man was also referred to the police for further investigation for voluntarily causing hurt and using criminal force to deter public servants from carrying out their duties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/64-year-old-man-arrested-for-suspected-drug-trafficking-biting-and-spitting-at-cnb-officers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 64-year-old Singaporean man was arrested for suspected drug trafficking on Nov 3, with about 1.5kg of cannabis among other drugs seized during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97713,"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-97712","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\/97712","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=97712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}