Packets of Drug Seized By Police Three Chinese heroin smal were each sentenced to 12 years imprisonment yesterday by the First Specia! District Court, charged with buying and smoking the drug. They were arrested in the Yangtszepoo district where packets of heroin were seized by the police. Accused told the court that the heroin been bought from a Korean ope ing in an alley in Foochow Road, at a price of 30 cents Yor a packet.
A cotton goods broker and a chauffeur arrested on Thursday in Rockhill Avenue near Keswick Road with two pounds of heroin in the car in which they were travelling. were charged in me same court yesterday. They were remanded for a week to facilitate further investigations. The chauffeur told the court that the heroin did not beler to him. It was put into his vehicle by one Tsang, who had inquired if he was going into the Settlement. He merely gave the cotton broker a lift, as the latter is his friend, he said.
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