Crime | PSP dismantles drug selling spot in Toi San

The Public Security Police Force (PSP) spokesperson told the media at a press conference this week that a selling point of the drug known as ‘ice’ was found and dismantled over the weekend in the Toi San neighborhood of the Northern District.

According to the PSP spokesperson, three suspects were detained and almost 64 grams of ice were seized, with a market value of around MOP200,000.

The investigation began when a police officer questioned a local resident behaving suspiciously in the street. He was found to possess over 5 grams of ice that he told the police he had acquired from an apartment building in the surroundings.

A further inspection of his residence revealed more ice that he had bought a few days before for MOP1,000.

The same man tested positive for consumption of ice.

The PSP then mounted a surveillance camera to the apartment building where the first suspect attested he had bought the drugs and found a second suspect exiting the building, in possession of 0.75 grams of the same drug. This second suspect refused to cooperate with the authorities and refused to be drug tested. The force found a third suspect inside, a local woman who was over 50 years old.

Inside the apartment were 19 packages of the drug amounting to almost 58 grams, with a market value of about MOP190,000, according to the police.

The woman also tested positive for drugs and all three suspects were transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office under the charges of illicit drug trafficking (third suspect) and illicit drug consumption (first and second suspects). RM