SEPANG: ALONG with dhal, green beans and dried chillies, an Indian national who arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Thursday morning had also brought in 9.337kg of ketamine stuffed inside "artificial" cashew nuts to fool Customs. The fake nuts were placed together with genui...
22/04/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKUCHING: SARAWAK is to start having students in secondary schools and institutions of higher learning tested randomly for drugs next month. Even though statistics from the National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) shows that the majority of drug users in the state are aged 18 and above -- well after they h...
19/04/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKUALA LUMPUR: There was drama at the High Court here yesterday when family members of four accused persons charged with trafficking drugs cried after the court sentenced them to the gallows. They immediately hugged the accused -- Ambiya Mohamad, 40, and Arafah Abu, 30, who are both Myanmar national...
30/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESSEPANG: The Kuala Lumpur International Airport Customs Department foiled four attempts to smuggle drugs weighing 19.57kg, worth RM4.89 million, on Sunday and Monday. Its deputy director Siti Baya Berahan said yesterday the drugs were seized from three Indian nationals at the Low Cost Carrier Termin...
28/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKUALA TERENGGANU: A clinic to treat drug addiction will be built at a cost of RM23 million in Kampung Raja, Besut, soon, Terengganu Anti-Drug Agency director Abdul Mutalib Abdullah said yesterday. He said construction of the Cure and Care Clinic was expected to begin in June at the site of the Narco...
26/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESIPOH: A police team from the state narcotics unit which raided a house for drugs instead stumbled onto components of a M-16 assault rifle in Tasek here on Monday. Perak police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said following the discovery five people were detained including three policemen. `Initial...
21/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESA SPECIAL incentive allowance of RM100 has been approved by the government for officers working at Puspen drug rehabilitation centres under the National Anti-Drug Agency. (AADK). Approved in January, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Abu Seman Yusop said the agency had been appealing for this allowance fo...
21/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESPUBLIC outrage over the murder of Nurul Nadirah Abdullah, 5, escalated yesterday after it was revealed that she was killed over a grudge and that the main suspect is a drug addict neighbour. Anger and disgust were the common themes in cyberspace as netizens vented their anger on the suspect and on...
14/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESBUKIT MERTAJAM: A local woman`s first-ever holiday trip abroad could turn out to be her last after she was nabbed with 3.1kg of methamphetamine worth RM770,000 at the Penang International Airport on returning from Bangladesh. The arrest of the woman, in her 20s, has prompted the authorities to susp...
13/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESMELBOURNE: A Malaysian woman, who is five months pregnant, was detained at the airport here on Feb 10 after she was allegedly found with 34 pellets of heroin in her stomach, the Malaysian consulate confirmed yesterday. The 36-year-old mother of four from Puchong, Selangor, was taken to a hospital...
09/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESSEPANG: The Customs Department detained three African men who had swallowed 219 pellets of drugs worth RM1.05 million at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). The men from Nigeria and Guinea, aged between 30 and 38, were detained on Feb 28 after checks by Customs enforcement officers foun...
08/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESfor alleged drug possession last week was a frequent visitor to Malaysia, especially in the last three months. Checks revealed that since December, he had come here on five occasions before he was nabbed with two packets of syabu worth RM56,000 in a sting operation last Thursday. The drugs were f...
08/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESUP to four years ago, Wan Lydiawati Abdul Majid always saw the good in everybody. Her faith in all humanity, however, ended when she was jailed for being a drug mule in Trinidad and Tobago. Wan Lydiawati, 24, is finally out of prison, after four years. Speaking at a Foreign Affairs Ministry`s regi...
08/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESPETALING JAYA: A wheelchair-bound man was sentenced to 64 months` jail and 10 rotan strokes today by the Sessions court after pleading guilty to possessing 182.58gm of cannabis three years ago. M. Alagesan, 30, who is unemployed, committed the offence at an apartment unit at Apartment Harmoni, PJU...
08/03/2012 | NEWS STRAITS TIMES/SUNDAY TIMESKUALA LUMPUR: An Australian was arrested for possessing 225g of methamphetamine at a cafe in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng here last week. The suspect, a 32-year-old lorry driver from Perth, was staying in a condominium in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng. He was kept under surveillance by police here who were suspiciou...
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