{"id":30464,"date":"2015-09-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/09\/20150923_210156.shtml"},"modified":"2015-09-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T04:00:00","slug":"4300-arrested-for-gang-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/09\/23\/4300-arrested-for-gang-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"4,300 arrested for gang activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/_Crime_02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested more than 4,300 people and seized $102 million worth of drugs and illicit goods in a joint operation mounted by the Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau police between June 15 and September 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The operation was to curb cross-boundary organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched 7,500 locations, including discos, amusement game centres, massage parlours, nightclubs and residences.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A total of 4,343 people were arrested for triad-related offences, drug offences, managing vice establishments, breach of conditions of stay, illegal gambling, criminal damage, wounding, and possessing and publishing obscene articles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They included 2,539 men and 1,804 women, aged 12 to 85. Among them, 1,177 were Mainlanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police seized $67 million worth of drugs, including cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ice, heroin, Midazolam and Zopiclone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also raided an obscene and pirated DVD duplication centre, seizing 220,000 discs and a number of production tools worth $4.9 million. The seizure included a large batch of weapons and imitation firearms, and 290,000 contraband cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/_Crime_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested more than 4,300 people and seized $102 million worth of drugs and illicit goods in a joint operation mounted by the Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau police between June 15 and September 18.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The operation was to curb cross-boundary organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched 7,500 locations, including discos, amusement game centres, massage parlours, nightclubs and residences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 4,343 people were arrested for triad-related offences, drug offences, managing vice establishments, breach of conditions of stay, illegal gambling, criminal damage, wounding, and possessing and publishing obscene articles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They included 2,539 men and 1,804 women, aged 12 to 85. Among them, 1,177 were Mainlanders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police seized $67 million worth of drugs, including cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ice, heroin, Midazolam and Zopiclone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also raided an obscene and pirated DVD duplication centre, seizing 220,000 discs and a number of production tools worth $4.9 million. The seizure included a large batch of weapons and imitation firearms, and 290,000 contraband cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30465,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions\/30465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}