GEORGE TOWN, Nov 14 — The police have detained five men linked to a Penang-based drug trafficking syndicate and seized an assortment of drugs and methamphetamine pills worth RM407,000 last Thursday.
Among the drugs seized in raids at Sungai Nibong and Jelutong were 14,927 pills comprising erimin-5, ecstasy, syabu and ketamine.
State narcotics CID chief, Superintendent Maidu Abu Bakar said the police got their break when they nabbed a 26-year-old suspect at a fast-food outlet’s car park in Bandar Baru Air Itam at 2.30pm.
He said checks on the man’s Nissan Serena car led to the seizure of syabu weighing 107gm, ketamine (45gm) and 170 pills of ecstasy and RM20,000,” he told a press conference here today.
In a subsequent raid at the man’s house in Sungai Nibong, 1.725kg of syabu, ketamine (1.475kg), erimin-5 (1,700 pills) and ecstasy (485 pills) were seized.
That seizure led to the arrest of four other men in Jelutong, seven hours later, with the seizure of 8,900 erimin-5 pills and 3,672 ecstasy pills.
Meanwhile in IPOH, the police seized 1.3kg of methamphetamine worth RM89,950 in connection with the arrest of a 28-year-old trader at a car park of the Greentown commercial centre yesterday.
Perak Narcotics CID chief, ACP V. R. Ravi Chandran said the drugs were packed in plastic wrappers for distribution as ‘Organic Whole Food Mango Powder’ to entertainment outlets statewide.
“This is the first such case and we managed to plug its distribution,” he told a press conference here today. — Bernama
