PETALING JAYA: Malaysians can expect safer surroundings by 2020 as one of the strategic thrusts in the 11th Malaysia Plan to improve wellbeing for all. Crime prevention will be intensified through strategies such as omnipresence, the Safe City Programme, and volunteerism programmes. Police respons...
21/05/2015 | THE STARGEORGE TOWN: Police here foiled a drug deal which was supposed to take place at the basement car park of a shopping complex in Bandar Prai Jaya. Four men were arrested and drugs worth RM720,000 seized in the bust. A team comprising of personnel from the Bukit Aman and Penang Narcotics CID intercep...
15/05/2015 | THE STARPUTRAJAYA: Sidibe Mariame can be considered a lucky woman for getting away with being naked in public and stopping vehicles on the street. The 26-year-old Nigerian walked out a free woman yesterday after the Federal Court upheld the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s decision in 2013 that acquitted her of t...
13/05/2015 | THE STARSHAH ALAM: Police are asking private higher learning institutes to cooperate with authorities on suspicious activities of foreign students, after one was found with 21kg of ganja in his apartment. The 30-year-old Nigerian, who entered the country under a student visa, was arrested on Saturday at hi...
12/05/2015 | THE STARDENPASAR: A Russian woman who smuggled drugs into Indonesia has been sentenced to 16.5 years in jail, escaping the death penalty just weeks after seven foreign nationals were executed for trafficking narcotics. Aleksandra Magnaeva, 26, was arrested in December after arriving in Bali on a flight fro...
12/05/2015 | THE STARIPOH: Police have arrested a man and seized 7.478kg of heroin during a raid at a rented house in Desa Rishah Indah here. Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Osman Salleh said the 43-year-old suspect was believed to be packing the drugs with a street value of RM374,000, for distribution in the Buntong area her...
12/05/2015 | THE STARAN assemblyman here has urged the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to block a Facebook site found to be promoting marijuana as a medical herb. The Facebook page under the name MalaysianMedicalMarijuana, which uses Bahasa Malaysia to promote its views, also supported the mo...
11/05/2015 | THE STARALOR SETAR: Two friends were sent to the gallows by the High Court, here on Sunday for drug trafficking committed three years ago. Judicial Commissioner Datuk Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab passed the death sentence on Siva a/l Krishnan, 32, and Satish a/l Subramaniam, 22, after the defence failed to raise...
10/05/2015 | THE STARAN international outcry has followed the execution of the eight convicted drug traffickers in Indonesia this week. Indonesia, Malaysia and 30 other countries and territories around the world have laws prescribing the death penalty for drug offences, a practice that is in violation of international l...
02/05/2015 | THE STARALOR SETAR: A odd-job worker has been charged in the magistrate’s court here with trafficking in 228.56gm of heroin and 81.70gm of methamphetamine. No plea was recorded from Fadzli Ikmar Kamaludin, 29, when he was charged with committing the offences at about 12.45am on April 19 at the parking lot...
30/04/2015 | THE STARKUALA LUMPUR: Three drug kingpins who used foreigners as drug mules were among nine Nigerian men arrested in a major drug bust, resulting in RM2.5mil worth of syabu seized. Police conducted multiple raids in Seri Kembangan, Cyberjaya, Bandar Sri Damansara and Shah Alam, said Bukit Aman Narcotics Cr...
23/04/2015 | THE STARMy maid was behaving weirdly the other day. She claimed that she saw a woman in her room, telling her that her daughter in Indonesia had died. When I went to check, there was no one in the room. I was very afraid because I thought it might be a ghost. But then, someone told me that my maid might be...
23/04/2015 | THE STARSEPANG: Customs officers seized some 30kg more in drugs last year compared to 2013, taking their haul to 347.46kg of the narcotics estimated to be worth RM62.2mil. KLIA Customs director Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim said last year, the department managed to detect 33 cases and arrested 24 people. `Thi...
22/04/2015 | THE STARGONGOLGON (Australia): Adrian Toomey made thousands of dollars a day as an `ice` dealer in Dubbo, a fairly typical Australian town northwest of Sydney, supplying the drug to everyone from bank workers to school teachers. Before he was jailed for dealing, Toomey, 38, was not only supplying but also...
18/04/2015 | THE STARWearing loose sweatpants and sneakers, mothers Samantha Roberts and Beatrice Rodrigues kicked and pranced to a 30-minute kick-boxing video, struggling to keep up with the perfectly toned bodies of the fitness instructors on the television screen in front of them. It wasn`t just fitness or a slimmer...
17/04/2015 | THE STAR