Expat junkies, dealer, get their fix then fall into net
08 December 2005

One by one, they made their way to the home of the woman who headed the drug syndicate.
And, one after another, the waiting Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers nabbed them.

A British management consultant, a construction supervisor also from Britain, a young
Malaysian woman who works as a sports coach, a Japanese director, Thai prostitutes ...
all of them were arrested. Some were carrying drugs, some had imbibed them.

When it was all over, the officers had rounded up the 31-year-old Thai woman who heads
the drugs syndicate, her American boyfriend, as well as 12 others who came to buy cocaine,
Ice, cannabis or Ecstasy from her home. The profile of these buyers showed the syndicate
was catering to well-heeled expatriates.

According to the CNB, the operation kicked off just after 3pm on Monday, when the officers
— who had received some information about the syndicate — spotted a 45-year-old British
management consultant making his way to the Thai woman's Oxley Garden home.

The van carrying the Briton was stopped and cocaine and ketamine were found on board.

A procession began. A 30-year-old British director was next to arrive and when he left
20 minutes later, his vehicle, too, was stopped. A cocaine-stained packet was seized.

Another British man, together with a female Malaysian sports coach were the next to drop by.
Her urine tested positive for cannabis.

Around 7.50pm, the operation was to take another twist. A 24-year-old Thai woman spotted
leaving the syndicate chief's home was found to have packets of the stimulant Ice hidden
in her underwear. She turned out to be a runner for another drug trafficker —a 37-year-old
Thai prostitute.

The raids now switched to Balestier Road — where a further two male Thai prostitutes were
caught for substance abuse — and Telok Blangah Rise, where the 37-year-old trafficker and
some clients were caught.

All this while, the woman at the heart of the Oxley Garden syndicate remained unaware that
her clients were being picked up as they left her home. Finally, around 8.20pm, she and her
boyfriend, an American who works as a senior operations manager, left their Oxley Garden home.
They were nabbed and both tested positive for drugs.

Only the mopping-up remained and it was in the course of this that two other clients — a
Japanese director and a Singaporean contractor — were nabbed.

While some of the clients have been let off on bail, the syndicate leader and the drug
trafficker are likely to be charged today. - TODAY/sh

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It would be interesting to see what this Foreign "Talent" or rather, Foreign TRASH Drug
Syndicate gets for trafficking and consuming drugs. And open up your eyes, Sinkies, these are
the very people whom are praised to the sky by our millions-dollar ministers (how important FTs
are to SG's economy, how FTs bring jobs etc etc all those bullshit!). And by the way,
Oxley happened to be our beloved Minister Mental, oops, i mean Minister Mentor's territory.
I guess nowadays criminals still abide the rule that the most dangerous place is also the safest. ;)