ALOR SETAR (Feb 15, 2014): The Royal Malaysian Customs Department thwarted an attempt to smuggle in drug into the country with the seizure of 3.319kg of syabu, worth RM630,610, at the Bukit Kayu Hitam Immigration Complex last Wednesday. Kedah Customs director Datuk Abd Aziz Abdul Latif said a 31-y...
15/02/2014 | THE SUNMELAKA (Feb 13, 2014): A drug trafficker was among 39 drug addicts detained at an oil palm plantation in Kampung Ujong Padang here, in a 10-hour Ops Tapis from 6am yesterday. Melaka Tengah district police chief ACP Salehhudin Abd Rahman said the detention of the addicts including a woman, aged bet...
13/02/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Feb 11, 2014): In less than two weeks after it was launched, the federal anti-narcotics police elite Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (STING) busted two drug syndicates with the arrest of 11 people and recovery of RM3 million worth of drugs last week. The drugs, namely he...
11/02/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Feb 1, 2014): The Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) has called on the government to conduct a serious review of its current drug prevention measures. This includes identifying the government's weaknesses and seeking ways to improve the measures. MCPF vice chairman Tan Sr...
01/02/2014 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30, 2014): The police's Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (Sting), tasked with going after drug kingpins, have acquired high-performance cars to enable them to outrun traffickers. Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim s...
30/01/2014 | THE SUNSINGAPORE (Jan 26, 2014): A Malaysian woman was arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Saturday while attempting to smuggle 937 grammes of heroin inside her underwear into Singapore. Local newspaper, the Straits Times (ST) reported the authority as saying that three men suspected of tra...
26/01/2014 | THE SUNBESUT (Jan 15, 2014): Three men were detained together with an air rifle and drugs valued at RM6,000 in a raid carried out by the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (BSJN) in Kampung Batu Tumbuh, Kampung Raja, here last Tuesday. During the raid, a local and two others from Pahang and Kelan...
15/01/2014 | THE SUNKUANTAN (Jan 10, 2014): An attempt by two men to bribe the police with RM1,453 to have them freed from detention and undergoing a urine test was not only unsuccessful but may land both with a jail term and fine. Raub district police chief, Supt Wan Mohd Samsudin Wan Osman said the duo, suspected t...
10/01/2014 | THE SUNIPOH (Aug 2, 2013): The Sessions Court here today acquitted and discharged a 22-year-old lorry attendant on two counts of drug-related offences without calling for his defence. Judge Madihah Harullah ordered Mohsin Amri Adnan to be freed after finding that the prosecution had failed to there was a...
30/10/2013 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21, 2013): Narcotics syndicates running drug laboratories here are moving their activities from residential areas to remotely located industrial estates to evade detection by the authorities. This was discovered when federal police seized about RM18 million worth of syabu at a mak...
21/10/2013 | THE SUNBALIK PULAU (Oct 18, 2013): Three foreign nationals, including a 17-year-old girl, were charged separately at the Magistrates Court here today with trafficking Methamphetamine at the Penang International Airport two weeks ago. No pleas were recorded from the accused, Derrick Randell, 63, from Afri...
18/10/2013 | THE SUNKUANTAN (Oct 14, 2013): It was no `Chennai Express` for a suspected Indian drug mule who thought she could smuggle with ease, syabu worth about RM1 million into the country from Chennai, South India. Rather, what must have been crystal-clear, albeit too late, to the 58-year-old suspect was that th...
14/10/2013 | THE SUNGEORGE TOWN (Oct 7, 2013): Police seized drugs worth a total of RM2 million and uncovered a drug processing lab in several operations in Penang since Friday. Four suspects, including two foreigners, were nabbed in separate operations where 73kg in various drugs were seized. On Saturday, a 17-year-...
07/10/2013 | THE SUNPARIS (Oct 1, 2013): The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled while seizures of them have risen, according to a study published Monday. Researchers analysed data from seven government-funded programmes that tracked the illegal d...
01/10/2013 | THE SUNPETALING JAYA (Sept 30, 2013): The Magistrate`s Court here today acquitted and discharged local actor and comedian Saiful Apek and three others on a charge of misusing drugs three years ago. Magistrate Ahmad Solihin Abd Wahid ruled that the defence had succeeded in denting the prosecution`s case a...
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