Crime | Police bust ‘house arsenal’ during rape case investigation

The Judiciary Police (PJ) unearthed a “house arsenal” while the law enforcement authority was investigating several other allegations, the PJ announced yesterday.
This June, the PJ solved a case of abduction, duress, rape and possession of prohibited weapons. During the investigation of the case, the police discovered transactions of such weapons were taking place in Macau, conducted over social media platforms in the name of a one-person company.
The suspect who allegedly owned the company is a local man who claims to be working in the financial industry. It is suspected that he imported large numbers of weapons from the mainland using logistics services. The weapons, according to the police, were resold online at a profit.
On November 30, the PJ searched the suspect’s apartment in Taipa, where “a large number of weapons” were found. The weapons included five crossbows, nine bows, two sabers, a sharpened sword, stun guns, telescopic batons and more than 200 arrows of different lengths. They were seized by the PJ.
The suspect later confessed to the police that he was the owner of the weapons. The law-enforcement authority believes that he began making the illicit transactions in 2016, when he started the company and the social media page in order to make the transactions.
Investigations are still underway, the police stressed, mainly with regards to the extent of the suspect’s profits from this enterprise, and the conditions of the weapons flowing into the market.

Suspects arrested for drug dealing
In another case also announced by the PJ yesterday, a mainland Chinese man, surnamed Pan, was arrested and charged by the police with dealing and consuming illicit addictive substances.
Another three suspects were arrested by authorities as the investigation developed.
The police received intelligence that there were mainland people dealing drugs in Macau, mainly selling the substances to young people. The information drove the police’s focus to the arrested who had been dealing drugs in Macau for three months.
On Monday, the PJ surveilled the primary suspect. In the afternoon on the same day, the suspect was seen meeting two people in the Dynasty Area of the NAPE District. The police believed that they were in the midst of a transaction of illicit addictive substances.
Intercepting the suspects during the alleged transactions, the PJ investigators confirmed that the primary suspect was selling methamphetamine, which is also known colloquially as “ice.”
Once the transaction had been interrupted, Pan attempted to flee and discarded a small pack of the narcotics, weighing 0.9 grams.
After apprehending the man nearby, the investigators searched the alleged dealer’s apartment, which was located in the same area, and found 27 packs of methamphetamine in the suspect’s spare shoes.
The total amount of narcotics weighed 24.9 grams, worth about MOP82,000. Another HKD34,000 in cash was found on the suspect and in his apartment.
The police also discovered a woman in the apartment who was acting suspiciously. Urine tests were run on all four people and revealed signs of narcotics consumption.