Kuala Nerang - Kedah police have crippled the biggest drug syndicate in the state following the arrests of seven men, including five foreigners, near the Malaysia-Thailand border, near here. Also seized were various types of drugs worth more than RM18 million. Kedah police chief Datuk Hasanuddin Ha...
28/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKota Kinabalu - A local man, 21, was caught red-handed with RM47,340 worth of syabu here recently. District police chief Assistant Commissioner Habibi Majinjin said the unemployed man was seen loitering near the Likas Fisheries Complex on Nov 25. He said a police team had been monitoring his moveme...
28/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESTawau - The Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) seized 54.35kg of syabu and 234 ecstacy pills, worth over RM2 million, in a speedboat at the Sungai Tawau Lama estuary here on Monday. ESSCOM commander Datuk Ahmad Fuad Othman said the seizure was made during the Illegals Preventio Operation (OCP)...
27/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESGerik - At a rate of RM4 per kg, a lorry driver was willing to risk arrest for smuggling ketum leaves from Kedah to Kelantan. Gerik district police chief, Superitendent Zulkifli Mamood said the 34-year-old was caught on Saturday at 11.55pm during a police roadblock at Km9 of the Gerik-Jeli East-West...
25/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESNibong Tebal - Three men in their 20s who were on their way to Kuala Lumpur to deliver 50,000g of ketum leaves, were nabbed by police at the Op Covid-19 roadblock at the Jawi toll plaza here early Monday morning. Seberang Prai selatan district police chief Superitendent Lee Chong Chern said a polic...
25/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESGeorge Town - Police crippled a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of six people, including its mastermind, his wife and mother. Also detained were three fishermen, aged between 28 and 59. An assortment of drugs worth RM8.1 million, which included syabu, ketamine and heroin-base, were also s...
21/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESThe National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) has adopted 16 new standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the handling and managing of drug addicts at rehabilitation centre nationwide to curb the spread of Covid-19. Its director-general, Datuk Seri Zulkifli Abdullah, said the SOPs were applied at all AADK reh...
19/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESTapah - Six men, including five sibling, with the youngest aged 17 were cherged at the magistrate's court here yesterday with drug trafficking, which carries the death sentence upon conviction. The charge against the five brothers and Kyaw, a Myanmar national in his 20s, was read out before magidtra...
17/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESGeorga Town - Police crippled a ganja smuggling syndicate with the arrests of 12 people, including its mastermind, and the seizure of RM2.16 million in drugs. Of the 12 people, aged between 22 and 58, eight were Malaysian men, three were Bangladeshi men and one was a Lotion woman.
16/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESBukit Mertajam - Desperate to fulfiling drug cravings, a woman was willing to bring her 2-month-old baby to a friend's house here to avoid being detected by the authorities. However, the 20-year-old ended up being detained with three others, including a 16-year-old, in a raid by the state National A...
13/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESGeorge Town - An unemployed man was caught red-handed with 4,780 ecstasy pills in front of a hotel here, last Saturday. He was nabbed by a team from the state Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department at about 8.20pm. The drugs, valued at RM90,000, were found in 10 transparent plastic packages.
11/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESA suspected drug pusher, who had Covid - 19 symptoms, fled police custody by coughing in the face of an officer assigned to escort him. The man was on his way for a medical check-up at the La Union Medical Centre in Baguio City early Friday when he escaped, according to the Philstar.com portal.
10/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESJakarta - Nine suspects who are believed to be part of an international drug ring were nabbed by Indonesian police following an attempt to smuggle 81kg of drugs from Malaysia. Tempo.co reported that one suspect died of injuries when he resisted arrest in Aceh province.
05/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESManila - A shipment of syabu from Malaysia, weighing about 240kg and with an estimated street value of 1.63 billion pesos, was intercepted by the authorities in the Nueva Ecija province. Two Chinese citizens were held when they came to collect the cargo in a controlled delivery joint operation in Ca...
02/11/2020 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKuala Lumpur - Police arrested 10 individuals, including five women, who attendent a wild party at a house in Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, on Wednesday night. Petaling Jaya district police chief Assistant Commisioner Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal said all 10, aged between 27 and 45, nabbed in the 9.50pm...
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