Melaka - 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...
24/10/2019 | THE STARManila - The Philippines' top policeman, who leads the nation's deadly drugs crackdown, resigned as he faces allegations of protecting officer accused of selling a huge haul of seized narcotics. Though the scandal dates from before Oscar Albayalde's (pic) time as national police chief, it has raised...
15/10/2019 | THE STARManila - Philippine authorities arrested an Indonesian woman carying 54 million pesos 9RM4.3mil) worth of illegal drugs in her carry-on bag amid a crackdown on drug smuggling attempts. The Bureau of Customs said Agnes Alexandra was arrested after midnight yesterday at Manila 's airport after authori...
08/10/2019 | THE STARLabuan - Police have conducted 32 drug operations, codenamed Op Sarang, on the island this year. OCPD Supt Muhamad Farid Ahmad said the operations saw 116 men and 12 women, all aged below 50, arrested after testing positive for drugs. "We checked 299 men and 32 women, and found almost half of them...
07/10/2019 | THE STARMiri - Sarawak police have busted a major drug trafficking network in Miri during a series of raids here over the past few days. Some RM409,917 worth of drugs and items related to drug packaging and supply were seized. Sarawak deputy commissioner of police Deputy Comm Datuk Dev Kumar said three loc...
03/10/2019 | THE STARTeheran - Iran has seized 8.8 tonnes of narcotics destined for Europe and uncoverd one of the country's largest trafficking rings, police said. "This huge narcotics shipment, which wa hidden in a petrol tanker and reached here via Iran's eastern border, was supposed to be offloaded and then smuggled...
27/09/2019 | THE STARTwenty - five people were arrested in a larga operation involving 120 personnel at a dumpsite in the Stung Meanchey district as part of a nationwide crackdown on drus.
21/09/2019 | THE STARA newlywed couple from Tumpat were forced to spend their “honeymoon” in a lock-up after they were arrested for being in possession of drugs, reported Sinar Harian. They were caught with an assortment of drugs worth RM11,500.“The Proton Waja, which was bought with cash, was also seized, ” said Tumpat...
20/09/2019 | THE STARSalt Lake City - The photo that flashed onto the coutroom screen showed a yong man dead on his bedroom floor, bare feet poking from the cuffs of his rolled-up jeans. Lurking on a trash can at the edge of the pictire was what prosecutors said delivered this death : an ordinary, It had arrived with 10...
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