SINGAPORE, Reuter: Singapore police have arrested four people and seized 200 pounds (90 K.G) of raw opium in its largest drug haul in 10 years, police said today.
A Malaysian woman, two Malaysian men and a man from Singapore formed a drug ring that used Singapore 2s a transit point for opium smuggled from the Golden Triangle on the Thai Burmese border, Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) deputy director Lehman Yew told reporters.
CNB officials, who investigated the syndicate for three weeks, stopped a car carrying the three men and found 100 pounds (45 kg) in the boot last Sunday, Yew said. They later found another 100 pounds in a house and arrested the 27year old woman.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 22, 1986
