Batu Pahat - The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has uncovered another tactic used by drug smugglers, following the seizure of some 70kg of syabu hidden in Chinese tea packets on a boat near Muar. Johor maritime director First Admiral Nurul Hizam Zakaria said the syabu and the fibre glass boat...
28/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESPort Dickson - Police arrested three men, including an Indonesian, and seized syabu and cannabis worth RM125,170 in an operation codenamed Op Tapis on Wednesday. Negri Sembilan deputy police chief Che Zakaria Othman said the suspects, aged 37 to 60, were arrested in two separate areas at KM17 of th...
28/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESNong Khai - Thailand's narcotics bureau has seized more than 80 million "yaba" pills in the past six months, a record haul partly blamed on a suply glut caused by the pandemic. But now the United Nations warns of an even bigger deluge as Myanmar's legal economy tanks following the Feb 1 coup.
27/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESPenang police uncovered an ecstacy proceessing laboratory and seize an assortment of drug worth RM11.8 million from a house in Taman Pauh Jaya in Seberang Jaya near here on Monday. The team, from the state and Seberang Prai Tengah Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department, also arrested three men,...
25/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESShah Alam - An international drug syndicate's operations bit the dust after police raided and seized nearly one tonne of drugs believed to be syabu in Kajang on Wednesday. Police also arrested three suspects, including the landlord of a store, where the drugs were concealed.
23/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESJohor Baru - An officer and two policemen were detained on Tuesday and Thursday on suspicion of colluding with a drug syndicate abd committing extortion . Johor police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said police arrested the 31-year-old officer, who is an an inspector attached to the Johor Baru...
22/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKuala Lumpur - Police busted a syndicate using tented cars for drug trafficking with the arrest of a local man during a raid in Sri Gombak, near here, last week. Gombak district police chief Assistant Commissioner Arifai Tarawe said the 28-year-old had been actively doing this in the Klang Vlley, us...
17/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESMelaka - A total of 20kg of ketum leaves and 57 litres of ketum water were seized at an empty shophouse in Taman Desa Taming Sari, Sungai Udang here. Suspected of being used as a ketum water-processing place for the past three months,authorities raided the premises in Op Sarang on Sunday morning.
16/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESPenang police scored another major success in its fight against drugs when it busted a syabu syndicate with international links following the seizure of 144.7kg of drugs worth RM5.2 million and the arrest of two. State police chief Datuk Sahabudin Abd Manan said, acting on a tip-off, a police tailed...
16/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESBangkok - A South Korean drug lord has been nabbed by the authorities over his alleged likns to the international drug trade. Immigration Bureau chief Police Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang said his officers arrested the 48-year-old, identified only as Sangjae, in Pathum Thani following a tip-off from the...
13/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESBeh Chew Boo, 38, who has been given a second chance at life, wants to put the past behind him and start life anew. The Penangite, who escaped the gallows when je was acquitted by a Singapore court recently on all five charges of bringing drugs into the republic, said he felt relieved to be back hom...
12/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESAs the famillies of the victims in the accident at Sungai Besi-Ulu Klang Expressway (SUKE) construction are pick up the pieces, the lorry driver who caused the accident was remanded for four days starting yesterday after he tested positive for methamphetamine. City Traffic Investigation and Enforcem...
05/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESBukit Mertajam - Police are looking for a man from Aceh, Indonesia to assist in investigations related to last Thursday’s arrest of five men and the seizure of syabu worth RM22.46 million. Seberang Perai Tengah District Police chief ACP Shafee Abd Samad said the man, identified as Razali, with pass...
04/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESGeorge Town : Penang police busted a syabu trafficking syndicate with international links, following the seizure of 623.75kg of the illegal substance worth RM22.76 million last Thursday. The seizure of the drugs is the biggest recorded in the past five years. Federal Narcotics Criminal Investigation...
02/03/2021 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKota Baru : The General Operations Force (GOF) detained two men and seized ketum juice, cigarettes and rice worth more than RM20,000 in separate operations yesterday. GOF Eighth Battalion commanding officer Superintendent Mohamad Shamsuddin said the ketum juice and cigarettes were seized in the firs...
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