Manila - Vice-President Leni Robredo is set to release her findings and observations on the government’s drug war on Monday, she said in an ambush interview. “Regarding the report, it will be finished on Thursday. “We are just waiting for the SEA (South-East Asian) Games to end, but I will be in Bas...
11/12/2019 | THE STARA man in Phatonglong Village, Nan district, Luang Prabang province, used a butcher's knife to stab his wife. He inflicted serious injuries on his spouse after she refused to give him money. Police in Nan district said the incident occured on Nov 26.
10/12/2019 | THE STARGombak - Instead of cows, police found drugs in a cattle shed in Kampung Timah, Bukit Beruntung, that is being used as a drug processing lab. Its location in the outskirts was the prime reason the drug syndicate chose the site as a means to evade the authorities, said Comm Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader Mo...
28/11/2019 | THE STARPutrajaya - An Australian grandmother sentenced to death last year for drug trafficking has escaped the gallows after the Federal Court here acquitted her. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto has always maintained her claim that she was tricked into carrying drugs by an African-American man in Shanghai, Chi...
27/11/2019 | THE STARIpoh - Drug syndicates would resort to all sorts of tactics to mask their operations and distribute the illegal substances, says Comm Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd. The Bukit Aman Narcotic Crimes Investigation Department director said these included creating their unique inventions to be used in dru...
26/11/2019 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - A total of 48 people, including 13 women, were arrested when police raided two wild parties held at a condominium in the city. Those detained are mostly teenagers, with the youngest just 12 and the oldest 25. Acting on a tip-off, police raided the condominium in Kampung Berembang alon...
24/11/2019 | THE STARGeorge Town - Tears of joy filled the courtroom when a businessman embraced his family and wept for a good minute after he was acquitted and discharged of trafficking over 8kg of methamphetamine more than six years ago. Ong Tong Chuan, 47, who has been in jail for six years, was seen hugging his fam...
23/11/2019 | THE STARIpoh - Perak police arrested 16 policemen involved in drug abuse since last year, says Comm Datuk Razarudin Husain. Of the number, the state police chief said six had been charged in court while the other cases were still under investigation.
22/11/2019 | THE STARMelaka - A father of five could face the gallows after being arrested by gallows after being arrested by police for having drugs worth RM400,000. Melaka police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Mat Kasim Karim said they were investigating why the 41-year-old backhoe driver had to resort to drug trafficking.
13/11/2019 | THE STARPolice in northern Dien Bien province have detained two local drug traffickers, confiscating 220 cakes of heroin weighing 77kg, Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday. The detainees confessed that they had bought the drugs in laos and transported it to Vietnam.
11/11/2019 | THE STARKuala Lumpur - Six senior officers are among 190 police personnel who have been detained for drug abuse during a special operation codenamed “Ops Blue Devil”. The operation, launched in August, saw 5,385 personnel checked nationwide, said Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID)...
02/11/2019 | THE STARSeremban - Illicit drugs worth billions of ringgit seized from 13 districts in Selangor in recent years will be incinerated in stages, says Comm Datuk Noor Azam Jamaludin. The Selangor police chief said so far, they had destroyed 143,240kg of drugs worth RM7.3bil that were seized from three other d...
31/10/2019 | THE STARKepala Batas - Penang police will destroy drugs worth about RM9.56mil seized last year after obtaining a court order to do so, said Asst Comm Dalbir Singh Tanah Singh.The acting deputy director of Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) (Assets Forfeiture) said this would take pla...
25/10/2019 | THE STARKota Kinabalu - A suspected teenage drug addict and pusher was arrested during an operation in interior Tenom district. Tenom OCPD Deputy Supt Hasan Majid said the 17-year-old undocumented Indonesian was arrested at a house in Kg Bamban on Wednesday. Police seized 5.1g of methamphetamine from the h...
25/10/2019 | THE STARBangkok - Immigration police chief Lt-Gen Sompng Chingduang announced the arrest of Michael Garnet Eden Holt, 55, a New Zealand national, on charges of opening a restaurant and bar without licence, working without a work permit and allegedly possessing narcotic subtances. Holt was arrested at the...
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