Children Were Playing Outside of Fernvale HDB When 10KG Worth of Drugs Were Raided from Their Home

Seeing a couple of kids playing outside isn’t exactly an unusual sight, even with more and more children staying indoors to play games on their electronic devices.

What is unusual, is seeing officers storm in a flat and recover nearly S$1 million worth of drugs inside while children are playing outside.

Yet that’s exactly what happened recently at HDB flat in Fernvale.

10Kg of Drugs Seized From Fernvale HDB

On Tuesday afternoon (26 May), officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) conducted a raid at a residential unit near Fernvale Road.

There, they found more than 10kg worth of drugs, namely:

• 5,664g of heroin
• 2,538g of methamphetamine (also known as Ice)
• 2,489g of cannabis
• 192 Ecstasy tablets
• 7 Erimin-5 tablets

703 nitrazepam tablets and S$28,000 in cash were also recovered. In total, the drugs seized are estimated to have a street value of almost S$944,000.

CNB said that this amount of drugs seized is sufficient to feed about 2,700 heroin abusers, 1,450 Ice abusers, and 355 cannabis abusers for a week.

Officers also arrested a 45-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman for suspected drug activities in the raid.

Children Were Playing Outside When Officers Arrived

According to CNB, two children – an 11-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl – were playing outside the unit prior to the raid.

The bureau later discovered that they were the children of the 31-year-old female suspect.

“Arrangements were made to ensure that the welfare of the children was taken care of. The children were subsequently placed in the safe custody of a next of kin,” CNB said.

”Children are the unfortunate victims in many of such drug offences.”

Speaking about the discovery of the children, Mr Sebastian Tan, deputy director of operations at CNB, said: ”Drug traffickers not only destroy the lives of others through their selfish and nefarious acts, but also bring pain and misery to their family and children.” 

Drug Situation is ‘Worsening’

After seizing drugs worth more than S$2.3 million in an operation in April, CNB said the drug situation globally and regionally is “worsening”.

While there hasn’t been a significant change in demand in Singapore since the pandemic hit – and in fact, fewer drug offenders in 2020 – many offenders in 2020 were new abusers and offenders younger than 30 years of age.

Celebrations over the fewer drug arrests may be premature, however, as the pandemic likely affected their operations, with reduced movement across Singapore’s borders.

This means things could get worse once border restrictions here and abroad are lifted.

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