JOHOR BARU (Sept 18, 2013): The Johor branch of the Royal Malaysian Customs detained a South African woman at the Senai International Airport, here last Thursday for attempting to smuggle in 4.9 kilograms of methamphetamine worth almost RM1 million. Johor Customs Deputy Director Abdullah Sidik sai...
18/09/2013 | THE SUNSHAH ALAM (Sept 13, 2013): A 40-year-old German businessman and a metal scrap yard worker aged 25 were sentenced to death by hanging today for separate drug offences. Shah Alam High Court judge Noor Azian Shaari sentenced businessman Bebou Bouraima to the gallows after he was found guilty of traff...
13/09/2013 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10, 2013): Police have busted an international drug trafficking and smuggling syndicate and seized drugs worth RM50 million with the arrest of five Malaysians, one a woman, in two raids in Cheras and Kajang on Monday. The suspects, aged between 26 and 57, were believed to be act...
10/09/2013 | THE SUNNEW YORK CITY (Sept 5, 2013): Everybody is talking about Molly, but few aside from the young, hip and famous knew who she was until the death of two people at a New York music festival this weekend. The sweet-sounding name belongs to an Ecstasy-like designer drug that is being blamed for the deaths...
05/09/2013 | THE SUNKUCHING (Sept 3, 2013): Malaysia is committed towards achieving a drug-free Asean by 2015, consistent with its national target as outlined in the national drug policy, to create a drug-free society. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the country had a gigantic task to ach...
03/09/2013 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Sept 3, 2013): Four women were among 12 individuals arrested with various types of drugs worth RM1.9 million in five raids mounted by the police since Aug 25. Bukit Aman Narcotic Crimes Investigation Department Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said police also seized cash of RM135,000 from...
03/09/2013 | THE SUNSEPANG (Aug 28, 2013): A total of RM 30.45 million worth of drugs were seized at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) by the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) since January this year. Statistics by Customs today showed that during the same p...
28/08/2013 | THE SUNTHE public is getting sick and tired of serious crime and violence from syndicates involved in drugs, human trafficking, loan sharking, arms-trafficking, extortion and gangsterism. This massive problem is putting a huge toll on the country and, if not checked properly, can undermine the socio-econom...
28/08/2013 | THE SUNBANGKOK (Aug 27, 2013): Drug traffickers have created chocolate and strawberry-flavoured methamphetamines to attract the youth market in Thailand, media reports said Tuesday. Anti-drug campaigners have warned parents about the latest marketing strategy for yaba, or `crazy drug` as methamphetamines...
27/08/2013 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Aug 26, 2013): Indian and Pakistani drug syndicates hiding behind legitimate businesses here are impeding efforts by anti-narcotics police to stamp out their activities. Federal police narcotics crimes investigations department (NCID) director commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim sa...
26/08/2013 | THE SUNPETALING JAYA (Aug 24, 2013): Bukit Aman Police have set up two special teams to combat serious crimes and drugs in the country, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today. He said the teams, each comprised 200 well-trained manpower led by a police commissioner, had begun operation...
25/08/2013 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR (Aug 23, 2013): Police have detained a 34-year-old warden, believed to be the middleman involved in drug trafficking activities, in Kajang Prison. Kajang police chief ACP Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab said the man who has been serving in the prison for the past one year and four months, wa...
24/08/2013 | THE SUNLIMA (Aug 21, 2013): Two women from Britain and Ireland appeared in a Peruvian court on Tuesday to face drug charges, in a case that has triggered sensational headlines in their homelands. Two weeks ago, 20-year-old Michaella McCollum Connolly and 19-year-old Melissa Reid were arrested at Lima airp...
21/08/2013 | THE SUNDENZEL Washington (pix) says his mother saved him from spiralling into a life of drug use and crime. The 58-year-old actor grew up in the tough Bronx neighbourhood of New York City and he believes he could have followed his friends into jail if it wasn`t for his mum Lennis raising him in the right...
19/08/2013 | THE SUNBANGKOK (Aug 18, 2013): Thai authorities Sunday seized some 980,000 illegal methamphetamine pills worth almost six million dollars stashed in a truck thought to be heading to the capital Bangkok from northern Thailand, police said. Acting on a tip-off, narcotics police and local military officials...
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