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drugs seized
Police yesterday seized ર large consignment of dangerous drugs. worth $15.6 milion, in a raid on a fishing junk off Tsun Wan.
Officers of the Special Crime Squad, led by Chief Inspector Charles Lee, found the drugs on 2 30 foot Hongkong registered junk.
The licencee of the junk. aged 23. and his 19-year-old brother and a 36 year old crew member, were arrested.
The drugs seized included 2.932 lb of raw opium and 486 lb of morphine and is the largest single seizure so far this year.
"We know the drugs came from the Golden Triangle in Indochina." a senior police officer of the Narcotics Burcau said last night.
Following a tip-off that a large shipment of drugs was coming by junk detectives. under the directions of Superintendent C. Shields, laid an ambush on the Isun Wan waterfront on Monday night.
About I am yesterday they spotted the junk they were waiting for. They raced out in a police launch and a junk and boarded the junk.
The junk was towed to the Harcourt · Road Police! Piepi where the Commissioner of Police. Mr C. P. Sutcliffe. accompanied by the Senior Assistant Commissioner. Operations, Mr R. Henry, and the Director of Criminal Investigations Department. Mr J. B. Lees, inspected the drugs.
With beaming smiles, the police chief congratulated Supt Shields and his men and shook hands with Chief Insp Lee.
Mr Sutcliffe also praised Detective Inspector Chan Leung and Detective Sergeant Tsang Chiu-chit for their “good work."*
The drugs were handed over to the Narcotics Bureau and Detective Chief Inspector Trevor Hutchins, armed with a miniature transistor calculator, got busy working out the value of the drugs.
When the morphine packets were opened, detectives found that some of the cakes bore the Chinese character “999,"
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