SINGAPORE: Two men, suspected to be drug offenders, have been arrested after a loaded firearm was found during a raid in Jurong West, the Central Narcotics Bureau and the Singapore Police Force said in a joint news release on Wednesday .
On Monday, the police were informed by CNB that a 24-year-old suspect was in possession of a firearm.The suspect was arrested the next day at the void deck of a residential block near Jurong West Street 72, in an operation conducted by the police and CNB.The police told CNA that the firearm was loaded with four bullets. Another four bullets were found in the flat.
"This poses a clear and present threat to society, and it also poses a danger to our frontline officers who need to enforce the law."The suspects will be charged in court on Thursday. If found guilty of being in unlawful possession of any arm or ammunition, the first suspect faces between five and 10 years' jail and at least six strokes of the cane.
The second man"shall be liable on conviction to the like punishment as that other person with whom he was consorting or in whose company he was found", CNB and the police said.
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