A drug raid led by Mong Kok police last night busted one British-born building construction engineer and his female accomplice, reported to be a Thai national.
According to Oriental Daily, a team from Mong Kok District’s Special Duties Squad apprehended the British man outside 43 Portland Street in Yau Ma Tei at approximately 8.30pm.
The suspect was found with a small quantity of methamphetamine (unfortunately not blue, à la Breaking Bad), which police seized as evidence before proceeding to a room leased under the suspect’s name in Wan Chai at 10.30pm.
Police officers arrested a Thai woman who was inside the unit in Wan Chai, and seized a small amount of methamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis resin, and about 250 pills of an unidentified pharmaceutical product.
Another unit leased by the man on Canal Road West yielded about 800 grams of cocaine, bringing the combined worth of the drugs seized to an estimated HKD900,000.
The two suspects were arrested and detained overnight for suspected drug trafficking.
A senior inspector for the squad told Oriental Daily that the pair are believed to have been active for only a month (amateurs). The Hennessy Road apartment is suspected to be their home, and the Canal Road West apartment was acting as a storage room.
