KUALA 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.
10/07/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - A drug syndicate that catered to customers in the Klang Valley has been busted with the seizure of about RM2mil worth of drugs. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said three men believed to be syndicate members were picked up during the operation which was conducte...
09/07/2020 | THE STARTwo drug syndicates, which catered to addicts in Sarawak and two neighbouring countries, have been crippled with the seizure of 182kg of drugs and the arrest of 14 suspects, including two policemen with the rank of Assistant Superintendent and sub-Inspector. The drugs seized in raids in Kuala Lumpur...
08/07/2020 | THE STARMexico City (Reuters) - Mexican military officials said on Sunday they discovered a small plane from South America in flames after it made an illegal landing on the Yucatan Peninsula possibly carrying hundreds of kilos of drugs. Nearby, military officials said they also found a truck carrying drugs...
07/07/2020 | THE STARKota Kinabalu - A drug runner who was paid RM20 per “assignment” has been arrested. The 42-year-old Filipino was caught with 50.71g of syabu with a street value of RM5,071 at Kampung Vietnam in Tanjung Batu in Sabah’s east coast district of Tawau, said district police chief Asst Comm Peter Umbah
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