Ipoh - A jobless man with a pending court case for a ketum-related offence has been arrested for allegedly running a ketum drink operation in Pasir Puteh. Ipoh OCPD Ass Comm A.Asmadi Abdul Aziz said the 49-year-old man, who was charged in court earlier this year, was arrested during a raid at two ho...
22/08/2020 | THE STARPolice in Dong Thap province arrested a local man for attempting to smuggle 45kg of illicit drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam. The 30-year-old smuggler was caught redhanded transporting the drugs by car in Tan Hong district last Saturday after confessing to being hired by Cambodian men to smuggle the...
19/08/2020 | THE STARBANGKOK: Thai authorities have confiscated 600kg of “ice” (methamphetamine) in Narathiwat worth about 210 million baht (RM28.3mil), believed to be destined for Malaysia. Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house at a village in Muno in the subdistrict of Sungai Kolok, Narathiwat, and discovered the...
12/08/2020 | THE STARButterworth - Penang police have disposed of various types of drugs that could feed the habits of 1.97 million addicts. Its chief Comm Datuk Sahabudin Abd Manan said the drugs weighing 472.75kg and other related items were handed over to Syarikat Kualiti Alam Sdn Bhd for disposal. He said a police t...
11/08/2020 | THE STARKUALA LUMPUR: A syndicate believed to have just started distributing syabu in the Klang Valley has been crippled by police. Gombak OCPD Asst Comm Arifai Tarawe said following intelligence gathering, a team from his Narcotic Crime Investigation Department arrested two men and a woman at the parking l...
11/08/2020 | THE STARColombo - A cat detained at Sri Lanka's main prison while allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and cell phone SIM cards has escaped, media reports said. The feline was detected by jail intelligence officials on Saturday at the high-security Welikada Prison, a police official said. He said nearly two gr...
04/08/2020 | THE STARMyammar : Authorities seized a large haul of narcotics drugs in Sagaing region, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control said yesterday. Anti-narcotic police made the seizure in Indaw township on Saturday. A total of 2.2kg of heroin, 8.2kg of raw opium and 11,400 stimulants were confiscated. The...
04/08/2020 | THE STARSepang - Two men believed to be drug mules were arrested at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 prior to their departure to Miri, Sarawak, for carrying syabu which were hidden in Chinese tea packets. KLIA OCPD Asst Comm Zulkifli Adamsah said the first suspect, aged 22, was arrested near the dep...
25/07/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - A suspected drug trafficker is on the run after evading policemen who tried to arrest him. City police chief Comm Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said the incident occurred at about 6.30pm on Monday. “We received information on drug distribution and tailed a white Toyota Yaris driven by a man...
22/07/2020 | THE STARJohor Baru - The state is currently ranked the highest in the country with 448 drug-related arrests during a nationwide operation dubbed “Ops Sarang Khas”. The operation which was conducted on Sunday involved all 13 districts and their respective police division.
22/07/2020 | THE STARJohor Baru - The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) seized RM160,000 worth of drugs from a man impersonating a fisherman in Tanjung Piai waters. Its Johor director, First Admiral Aminuddin Abdul Rashid, said the 38-year-old local suspect tried to smuggle 3.2kg of drugs, believed to be meth...
20/07/2020 | THE STARShah Alam - A few drug operations were busted when police seized various drugs worth RM5.46mil in four separate raids around Selangor. State deputy police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Arjunaidi Mohamed said police arrested eight people, aged 23 to 49, who are also suspected of turning living quarters int...
15/07/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - A couple’s little “coffee” business at a condominium in Taman Desa here was busted when police raided their unit and seized drugs worth over RM170,000. The couple – a 30-year-old man and his 17-year-old foreign girlfriend – mixed drugs with coffee powder and were selling it for RM150...
13/07/2020 | THE STARA packet suspected of containing drugs was found during a roadblock manned by Traffic Control and Investigation Department personnel on Thursday. Both the driver and passenger were detained.
12/07/2020 | THE STARPolice in Dien Bien province have cracked down a major drug trafficking case, arresting three suspects and seizing 54 cakes of heroin, Vietnam News Agency reported. The authorities caught red-handed a man trading the drug weighing nearly 19 kg in Dien Bien's Muong Cha District on Tuesday night.
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