KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 — An Iranian drug kingpin is facing the death penalty for the second time in less than a year after he escaped the gallows following his first arrest last year. The 37-year-old suspect was earlier investigated for drug trafficking along with several other Iranians but he was n...
12/02/2014 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 — India has allegedly been used by drug smugglers as a gateway to Malaysia by courier service or using drug mules to take them to smaller airports instead of the KL International Airport (KLIA). Bukit Aman Narcotics CID director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said in the latest inci...
29/10/2013 | MALAY MAILKOTA KINABALU, Oct 28 — A man was arrested after the police allegedly found two kilos of cocaine wrapped in four separate packets strapped to his thighs at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport here on Saturday. Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said the 31-year-old man was arrested as h...
28/10/2013 | MALAY MAILOctober 28, 2013 KUALA BESUT, Oct 28 — Police detained three suspects believed to have been involved in printing false RM100 currency notes and drug trafficking at Kampung Nangka, Kuala Besut, here at 8pm last night. Besut police chief, Supt Kamaruddin Mohd Zakaria said the suspects, aged between...
28/10/2013 | MALAY MAILSentul police chief ACP Zakaria Pagan said a urine test was conducted on the suspect the day he was taken into custody and the results were positive. `We are waiting for a full medical report on the suspect from the hospital which includes a mental health evaluation.` Zakaria said the 26-year-ol...
28/10/2013 | MALAY MAILThe Department of Justice said Gilberto Lerma Plata, 50, was a former commander of the Mexican State Police in Tamaulipas state and at the same time was on the payroll of the Gulf Cartel based in Matamoros, on the border with Texas. He was arrested on the US side of the border in April 2012 and on...
25/10/2013 | MALAY MAILThe drugs were found on Sunday in Tachileik near the border with Thailand — a major destination for smuggled narcotics. `One man was arrested and three others are still at large,` a police official in the drugs control department told AFP. `It`s the biggest seizure of heroin this year,` he said on...
24/10/2013 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 — Federal police have detained an Iranian chemist allegedly working for an international drug trafficking syndicate when they seized syabu worth about RM17.9 million from a drug-processing laboratory at a store in Klang last week. The syabu, which was in liquid form, was meant...
21/10/2013 | MALAY MAILTEMERLOH, Oct 18 — Four people including a cop were detained with a number of drugs and weapons in a raid on a house in Taman Bahagia Indah, here yesterday night. District police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Aziz Salleh said, the three men and a woman aged between 21 and 27 years arrested in...
18/10/2013 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — A senior citizen was allegedly stabbed to death by his own son who is a drug addict at the Sri Melaka Flat in Cheras here early this morning. Cheras District Police chief ACP Mohan Singh Tara Singh said the male suspect, 39, was said to have stabbed his father thrice in their...
17/10/2013 | MALAY MAILDUNGUN, Oct 13 — Police detained a couple who were in possession of 2,000 red coloured pills believed to be methamphetamine, worth RM25,000 in Bandar Al-Mukhtafi Billah Shah (AMBS), here, today. Dungun OCPD Supt Ahmad Zailani Yaacub said the couple were arrested during a raid carried out at...
13/10/2013 | MALAY MAILDUNGUN, Oct 13 — A snatch thief who has been targeting women motorcyclists and pedestrians for the past three months in Dungun was detained in Ops Cantas, two days ago. The arrest of the 27-year-old suspect in Kampung Alor Tembesu is expected to solve 10 snatch theft cases in the district. Dungun...
13/10/2013 | MALAY MAILAgents confiscated the 270 heroin bricks smuggled in a cargo container in southern Kaohsiung city on Friday. They had been stored in 40 bags marked as frozen taro, and were mingled with hundreds of bags of real taro, the Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. The drugs were believed to be ma...
12/10/2013 | MALAY MAILPUTRAJAYA, Oct 11 — In a rare decision, the Court of Appeal here today allowed an application brought by a Vietnamese woman, who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking, to bring in new evidence in her bid to prove her innocence. A three-member panel chaired by Justice Datuk Balia Yusof Wahi gr...
11/10/2013 | MALAY MAILKUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — Actor Khaeryll Benjamin Ibrahim or Benjy and his four friends were today discharged and acquitted of a drug possession charge in June by the Ampang Magistrates Court. Magistrate Ayuni Izzaty Sulaiman released Benjy, 34, Imran Radzi, 32, husband and wife Asmanizam Mohamed...
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