KEPALA BATAS: Police detained 83 men including three foreigners, believed to be drug addicts, during a seven-hour morning raid in northern Seberang Prai district today. The foreigners were believed to be from Thailand and Pakistan. Penang Narcotic chief Supt Guan Beng Kang said in the Ops Bersep...
19/10/2014 | THE SUNJITRA: The National Association for the Prevention of Drugs (Pemadam) today urged the National Fatwa Council to issue a fatwa (edict) barring the use of ketum leaf and juice in the country. Its president, Datuk Mohd Johari Baharum, said this was because of the widespread abuse of ketum among youth...
18/10/2014 | THE SUNIPOH: Perak police confirmed the arrest of an investigating officer attached to the narcotics criminal investigation branch here and the seizure of 150g of syabu in a drug bust in Penang on Wednesday. Outgoing state police chief Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said the 30-year-old officer was picked...
16/10/2014 | THE SUNIPOH: An unemployed man was sentenced to eight years' jail and 10 strokes of the rotan by the High Court today after he pleaded guilty to an amended charge of possessing 62.88g of methamphetamine last year. Judicial Commissioner Noorin Badaruddin ordered the sentence on Sew Teck Keong (pix), 29, to...
16/10/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Gullible East Malaysian women are the latest prey of foreign drug dealers who mesmerise them with luxury before luring them to work as drug mules. According to police there was a rising number of women from Sabah and Sarawak who have fallen into the web of deceit of drug syndicates es...
14/10/2014 | THE SUNBESUT: Terengganu police detained a 27-year-old drug trafficker with 1,773 methamphetamine pills (pil kuda), weighing 170.34 grams, in front of a house in Kampung Kemunting, Kuala Besut at about 7.15pm on Sunday. The pills, packed in nine blue coloured packets and wrapped in newspapers was found in...
01/10/2014 | THE SUNSUNGAI PETANI: Police have arrested a 33-year-old mechanic and seized 54kg of marijuana worth about RM86,400, under Ops Cantas in Taman Sutera, near here, last Wednesday. Kuala Muda district deputy chief OCPD Supt Mohd Sabri Mohamad @ Ahmad said police found 56 slabs of compressed dried leaves susp...
29/09/2014 | THE SUNMELAKA: The Government spends about RM280 million a year to manage 28 drug rehabilitation centres nationwide under the National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK). AADK director-general Suhaimi Abdullah said the cost included meals for addicts (between RM8 and RM10 daily), utility bills and the salary of wo...
27/09/2014 | THE SUNINCHEON, South Korea: A teenage Cambodian soft tennis player has failed an Asian Games drug test and been kicked out, the second athlete to be caught for doping this week, organisers said Thursday. Yi Sophany failed a test on September 16 ahead of the start of the Games in Incheon, South Korea. The...
25/09/2014 | THE SUNGEORGE TOWN: The High Court here today discharged and acquitted a direct selling agent and a hawker for possessing, trafficking drugs and having scheduled poisons. Judge Datuk Zamani Abd Rahim freed Tan Choo Seng, 38, and Ooi Kean Wah, 45, after stating in his judgement that the prosecution had fai...
23/09/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: International drug syndicates are now smuggling drugs into the country via courier services and air cargo. To avoid detection, they send the drugs in small quantities using these services. Last week, police seized a total of 22kg of syabu worth RM5.5 million after arresting two suspe...
16/09/2014 | THE SUNJOHOR BARU: Two notorious secret societies were found to have been "stakeholders" in a drug trafficking syndicate when the police routed its operations in Johor last Friday, seizing 76kg of syabu and heroin worth about RM11 million. The drugs – believed to be for local, Singaporean and Indonesian m...
10/09/2014 | THE SUNHANOI: Vietnamese authorities have vowed to `seriously punish` a prisoner caught posting photographs of drugs alongside status updates on Facebook from a smartphone smuggled into jail, state media reported. Nguyen Duc Hung, jailed on drugs charges, last week posted photographs of himself in a black...
08/09/2014 | THE SUNGEORGE TOWN: A man, believed to be the mastermind of a drug processing and trafficking syndicate, and his mother-in-law were nabbed and police seized various types of drugs, valued at RM1.93 million, in the operation here yesterday. Penang police chief Datuk A. Thaiveegan said the operation at 12....
05/09/2014 | THE SUNJITRA: The Home Ministry will gazette the abuse of ketum (Mitragyna speciosa) leaves to be placed under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, said its Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. He said enforcement on the abuse of ketum leaves would be carried out soon by the police and National Anti-Drug...
05/09/2014 | THE SUN