ANTI-NARCOTICS operatives arrested a Taiwanese for importing 600 grams of ketamine, a dangerous drug, worth P3 million in Makati City yesterday.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) identified the suspect as Chang Bin Yen, 33, of Tainan City, Taiwan.
Yen was nabbed by PDEA operatives, in coordination with the Bureau of Customs Port of Clark and the PNP, in Barangay Poblacion during a controlled delivery operation.
A package declared as air purifier and consigned to Yen arrived at the Port of Clark last May 12. During inspection, the package was found also containing ketamine.
As soon as he received the package of two boxes containing six stainless steel water purifier and the ketamine, Yen was nabbed.
“Ketamine is a dangerous drugs classified as hallucinogenic drugs,” the PDEA-Central Luzon said in a statement, quoting a chemist.
“It can sedate, incapacitate, and cause short term memory loss, and because of this, some people use it as date-rape drug,” it added.
Ketamine, also known as Special K, is a dissociative anesthetic with hallucinogenic effects. The Dangerous Drugs Board included ketamine in the list of illegal drugs in 2005.
