KUANTAN: Police have crippled a methamphetamine (pil kuda) trafficking syndicate with the arrest of eight men and two women including a secondary school student in Pekan in three separate raids, here yesterday. Pahang deputy police chief Datuk Jamaluddin Abd Majid said in a special narcotics Ops C...
16/07/2014 | THE SUNKOTA BARU: Drug syndicates in the country are becoming more and more daring by targeting schoolchildren for distributing drugs, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, said. He said the ministry had detected syndicates focusing on students because they (schoolchildren can be easil...
14/07/2014 | THE SUNBOGOTA: Cocaine production in Colombia, a top producer, dropped nearly 13 percent last year, despite steady coca leaf agriculture, the United Nations drug watchdog said Thursday. But the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said use of the stimulant in the South American country, at 2.2 percent...
27/06/2014 | THE SUNNajib (second right) together with Khaled (second left), Johari Baharom (left) and Datuk Ayub Rahmat (right) during the launch of the Johor Pemadam Strategic Action Plan, June 26, 2014. BERNAMA JOHOR BARU: Efforts to check drug abuse must be tackled in a collective manner so that it will not dete...
26/06/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Supportive policies are required to counter issues related to substance abuse as punitive policies are no longer effective, said Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, The Universiti of Malaya's faculty of medicine dean said over the past three to four decades the drug abuse problem has always...
26/06/2014 | THE SUNLURED by easy money, an escape from poverty or family pressure, thousands of women are locked up for drug offences in Thailand, which has one of the world's highest rates of female imprisonment. Mai, 27, was sentenced to three years in jail after she was caught with 20 `yaba` pills -- a slang term...
24/06/2014 | THE SUNALOR SETAR: A dairy farm worker was sentenced to death by the High Court here today after he was found guilty of trafficking 1997.24 grams of cannabis two years ago. Judicial Commissioner Datuk Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab passed the sentence after the court ruled that the defence failed to cast reason...
16/06/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: A drug syndicate has been crippled with the arrest of two alleged ringleaders. Federal police narcotics crime investigation department director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the two suspects, aged 29 and 34, were arrested in Seremban last Saturday at about 1.50am. `Police found 50,0...
09/06/2014 | THE SUNSEPANG: Within two days last week, the Customs Department at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) foiled attempts by two foreign men to smuggle in 15.44 kg of methamphetamine worth RM2.93 million. KLIA Customs director, Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim said the two foreigners, from Uzbekistan and...
03/06/2014 | THE SUNJOHOR BARU: The Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (Sting) of the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) busted a drug trafficking syndicate and seized 16 kilogrammes of heroin and other drugs worth over RM700,000, here, late Sunday night. Bukit Aman Narcotics CID chief, Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahi...
28/05/2014 | THE SUNSURABAYA: An Australian man faces up to 20 years in an Indonesian prison after being arrested with a stash of drugs in his possession, police said Tuesday. Andrew Roger, 53, was detained at a cafe he runs from his home in the city of Surabaya in eastern Java rolling a marijuana cigarette with two f...
27/05/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: For the first time, police busted a ketamine drug lab and recovered 17.57kg of the drug worth RM727,000 and 200 ecstasy pills. Police have arrested two locals believed to be behind the drug operation. Federal director of narcotics Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the suspec...
26/05/2014 | THE SUNKOTA KINABALU: The state National Anti drug Agency (AADK) screened 173 individuals in a three-hour integrated operation beginning at 8pm last night at Jalan Indah Permai, Sepanggar near here. State Anti drug Action Council (MTMD) chairman Datuk Jainab Ahmad Ayid said 11 men aged between 18 and 35...
16/05/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: An Iranian drug kingpin, nabbed by police in 2008 and deported, was re-arrested by police on Monday when he slipped into the country again to resume his shady activities. Federal police NCID director Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the suspect, in his 40s, who was detained...
13/05/2014 | THE SUNMIRI: The government is studying Thailand and Singapore laws on the ban of glue-sniffing and other solvent abuse which could endanger health, said Deputy Home Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Abdul Rahman. He said this is to ensure that such laws achieve the desired objective without jeopardis...
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