OTHER CASES OF INTEREST
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On the evening of 19th January, 1973, an officer of the Narcotics Bureau was approached by an American male, Denzel Keith WOOD, 18 years, outside a club in Wan Chai and asked if he could supply any drugs. Following a period of negotiation the officer agrued to obtain a quantity of heroin for WOOD and hand it over to him on 21st January, 1973. On the evening of 21st January, 1973,
the officer met WOOD as arranged and WOOD asked the officer if he had the heroin. The officer told WOOD that he was waiting to hear from his supplier. A few minutes later a second Narcotics Bureau officer, posing as the supplier, came along and all three boarded a taxi.
Inside the taxi the 'supplier' handed WOOD two polythene packets of immitation No. 4 heroin and WOOD handed the 'supplier' a US$20 banknote. WOOD was then arrested and charged with Attemp- ting to Traffick in a Dangerous Drug. He was convicted of Attemp- ting to Acquire Possession of a Dangerous Drug and fined $500.00-HK.
(40) On the evening of 25th January, 1973, in Wan Chai a U.S. Serviceman working under the direction of Narcotics Bureau officers, was approached by a woman, TAM Kuen (6223/1227), and asked if he wanted heroin. The serviceman said he did and TAM produced a half ounce packet of heroin and said that it would cost $260.00-HK. Before the start of the operation the serviceman had been given a number of marked banknotes and these he handed to TAM in exchange for the packet of heroin. The serviceman later handed the packet of heroin to Narcotics Bureau officers at a pre-arranged meeting place. Other officers then stopped TAM, searched her and recovered the bank- notes. The packet of heroin was found to hold 8.4 grammes of a mix- ture containing 2.9 grammes of salts of esters of morphine. charged with Trafficking in a Dangerous Drug. She was convicted and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.
TAM was
(41)
On the evening of the 25th January, 1973, acting on infor- mation, an officer of the Narcotics Bureau was introduced to a man, YU Ngai-fu (0151/3015/1133), at a cafe in Kowloon. Following a period of negotiation it was arranged that the officer would purchase 100 ounces of heroin from YU. On the afternoon of 27th January, 1973, the officer met YU at a restaurant in Nathan Road where the transaction was to take place. However YU did not have the drugs in his posses- sion but he took the officer to an apartment house, where he asked the officer to wait. YU left the room returning a few minutes later with a white powder substance. The officer confirmed by examination that the powder was heroin and arrested YU. The total weight of the drugs was 2.86 kilogrammes of a mixture containing 0.8394 kilogrammes of salts of esters of morphine. YU was charged with Possession of Dangerous Drugs for the Purpose of Unlawful Trafficking and was placed on bail by a magistrate pending his trial in the District Court. YU did not attend court on the day set down for his case to be heard and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
(42)
On 10th July, 1973, after extensive surveillance, officers of the Narcotics Bureau raided a flat in Hung Hom, Kowloon.
The pre- mises was searched and a large quantity of No. 3 heroin was found. Four women, YUNG So-chun (5040/4790/3791), 57 years, WONG Yee-tai (7806/1942/1229), 55 years, NG Yuet-mui (0702/2588/2734), 25 years and CHEUNG Hing (1728/5281), 59 years, found in the premises were
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