Sepang - With 101 Malaysians caught in 2019 for being drug mules – out of which 82 were arrested overseas – the police decided to station a new police unit at airports to target such offenders. While 101 offenders might seem like a small number, those were just the offenders successfully caught, sai...
05/02/2020 | THE STARBangkok - More than 32 million methamphetamine pills were seized over a two-month-long coordinated anti-drug campaign. The campaign was an effort between countries in the Mekong Delta, said the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB). According to the Bangkok Post, the joint campaign was carrie...
04/02/2020 | THE STARAn Islamic preacher in Kwanyar, East Java, who was arrested last week for allegedly selling methamphetamine to his students, apparently tried to justify his action by claiming that meth was not prohibited in Islam.
30/01/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - He once owned a fleet of luxury vehicles and 105 properties that included luxurious bungalows and hotels. However, the drug lord’s wealth is now gone after the police seized a staggering RM366mil worth of assets in a special operation codenamed “Ops Eagle Diamond”. Inspector-General o...
29/01/2020 | THE STARMelaka - A former Singaporean prisoner will share his experience on narcotic abuse with inmates undergoing treatment at two drug rehabilitation centres in Melaka. State Health and Anti-Drug Committee chairman Low Chee Leong said Bruce Mathieu would be a speaker at the Tampin Drug Rehabilitation Cent...
27/01/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - A drug syndicate had been offering the sale and delivey of Ecstacy-laced soft drinks, Ecstacy powder and pills via the WeChat mobile phone app. The syndicate even guaranteed delivery on the same day of payment and offers these services here as well as Penang and in Johor Bharu.
23/01/2020 | THE STARA thousand methamphetamine pills were found yesterday lying by the roadside during clean-up campaign in Udonthani. A volunteer came across five envelopes and found 200 methamphetamine pills in each of the envelopes.
23/01/2020 | THE STARBangkok - The Metropolitan Police arrested Petchchai Pinsakul, 26, an alleged drug pusher in Phitsanulok, near here. Petchchai reportedly confessed to police that he had hidden 138,000 methamphetamine pills, which he had bought from another suspect, Nirun Chansri, 31, in an abandoned house a day bef...
23/01/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - Police have crippled a drug distrubution rin following the seizure of nearly RM1 mil worth of syabu. The group, which had been operating for a month, allegedly got their supply from Thailand.
21/01/2020 | THE STARSingapore - Two Malaysians were among five arrested by Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) during an operation. CNB said the two Malaysian suspects, a 26-year-old man and 24-year-old woman, were arrested on Tuesday morning. Drugs, including 422g of heroin, were found inside a backpack belongi...
16/01/2020 | THE STARKualau Lumpur - Only 15 days into the new year and the nation has already seen its biggest drug bust with the crippling of a major drug syndicate and seizure of 1.5 tonnes of drugs worth RM144.9mil.This huge amount of drugs could have fallen into the hands of 6.5 million addicts. Inspector-General...
16/01/2020 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - A drug raid that led to the arrest of the Dengkil assembllyman and five others said to be aides of three ministers has sparkrd controversy for Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia. On the same day, an internal circular signed by the party's secretary-general announced day for branch and div...
14/01/2020 | THE STARPetaling Jaya - Dengkil assemblyman Adhif Syan Abdullah and several members of two political parties were among 17 people detained following a raid on a private party in Puchong. According to sources, Adhif, who is the Selangor Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia Youth chief, was picked up in the early h...
14/01/2020 | THE STARA total of 122 suspected drug offenders were arrested during a four-day islandwide blitz, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said on Friday (Jan 10). The youngest suspect was a 14-year-old Singaporean boy while the eldest was a 69-year-old man,
11/01/2020 | THE STARManila - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs has failed to substantially eradicate the menace and ensnare major drug lords and should be reformed to prevent further bloodshed, the country’s vice- president said. Vice-President Leni Robredo, who leads the opposition,...
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