12 migrant workers, aged 23-40, arrested at Woodlands dorm for suspected drug offences

A total of 12 migrant workers, aged 23 to 40, were arrested for suspected drug-related offences following a four-hour Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) raid at a Woodlands dormitory on Nov. 27.

One of them is a Myanmar national, while the rest are Bangladeshis.

CNB said on Nov. 28 that among those nabbed was a 34-year-old Bangladeshi man, who was arrested for suspected drug trafficking and drug consumption offences.

Woodlands East Neighbourhood Police Centre, which participated in the raid, shared about it on Facebook on Dec. 10.

Officers from the Health Sciences Authority, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, Ministry of Manpower and the police joined the operations that occurred before midnight.

Raid

Migrant workers were seen seated with legs crossed on the ground after they were rounded up.

Officers conducted searches of their belongings and found drug utensils, such as a glass bottle, cut straw and a rubber tube.

Other workers not implicated watched on as the raid occurred.

Those arrested were taken away at around 1:20am on Nov. 28.

Top photos via Woodlands East NPC & CNB