Metro scion gets another 2-years in jail for drug-related offences

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Metro family scion Ong Jenn has been slapped with another jail sentence for drug-related offences, after pleading guilty to cannabis possession and consumption. The 43-year-old grandson of Metro founder Ong Tjoe Kim and son of the department store chain's former group...

They escorted him to his Bishopsgate home near Grange Road and he admitted that he kept a block of cannabis in a safe in his bedroom. They recovered a block of"vegetable matter" in the safe and also found a plastic container with"loose vegetable matter" in his bedroom.

Ong was taken to Clementi Police Division headquarters and his urine sample was later found to contain traces of cannabis. The DPP added:"Investigations revealed that the accused first started smoking 'weed' at the age of 21 while studying overseas. After returning to Singapore, he continued to smoke 'weed' about once a week.

 

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