GEORGE TOWN, April 6 — Police detained two men believed to be members of a drug syndicate and seized various types of drugs worth RM222,000 as well as RM70,000 in cash during several raids in Penang yesterday.

Northeast District police chief ACP Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said a 22-year-old man in Jelutong was arrested at 12.05 midnight after the police trailed behind a Toyota Vios car driven by the suspect.

"Upon inspection, police found ketamine weighing 53.2gm, 100 eramin 5 pills and 120 ecstasy pills,” he said here today.

Mior Faridalathrash said following the arrest, police raided the suspect’s house in Butterworth and another house in Taman Chai Leng, Perai near here where a 56-year-old man was picked up.

Police seized ketamine weighing 12.45gm, 12 ecstasy pills and seven eramin 5 pills at the first suspect’s house, and seized RM70,000 in cash at the house of the second suspect, he said.

"The detention of the second suspect led to another raid at an apartment in Jalan Harbour Place, Butterworth and (police) seized ketamine weighing 1.27kg; syabu (510gm) and 3,425 ecstasy pills.

"The place has been turned into a drug storage and packaging before the drugs are sold to the buyers,” said Mior Faridalathrash, adding that both suspects had been allegedly active in the drug trafficking activities over the past five months.

The men were being remanded for seven days to facilitate investigations.

Meanwhile, he said police were now closing in on two men believed to have snatched a Bangladeshi man, in his 40s, who was cycling in Bukit Gambir on Tuesday.

The closed-circuit television footage of the 2.15pm incident went viral on social media. — Bernama