Melaka police seize drugs worth over RM1.29 million

MELAKA: Melaka police seized various drugs estimated to be worth more than RM1.29 million in two separate cases in the Melaka Tengah and Alor Gajah districts here on Tuesday.

Melaka police chief Datuk Raja Shahrom Raja Abdullah said the first case involved two locations with a seizure of more than RM1.01 million and the detention of a 43-year-old man.

He said the Melaka Narcotics CID seized a heroin base estimated to weigh 3,860 grammes, Eramin 5 ( 6,960 pills), caffeine (137,030 grammes) and equipment believed to be used to process synthetic drugs in the first raid at a twostorey house at Tengkera here at 9.45am.

“We detained the man in a car near the premises before the first raid was conducted on the residence and various types of drugs and equipment believed used to process and package drugs such as gas stove, gas canisters and packaging equipment were found.

“The success brought the police to the second premises, an apartment in Banda Hilir, on the same day at about 5pm and heroin ( 592 grammes), ketamine (7,944 grammes), and Syabu (100 grammes) were found in the raid,” he told a press conference here yesterday.

Raja Shahrom said the raids conducted were based on police intelligence from a public tipoff, and early information found the man from Bachang, Melaka Tengah had no crime record and was a bankrupt. He said further investigations were being conducted to determine if the two raided premises were used to process the synthetic drugs or were simply their storage facilities.

“We are also investigating the sources of supplies for the materials used to process the drugs, since when it started operation, its network and where the drugs are marketed,” he said.

Raja Shahrom said in the second case, Syabu weighing four kilogrammes worth RM280,000 was seized from a car driven by a 34-year- old man at KM215 of the North- South Expressway (south bound) at about 5pm on Tuesday.

He said the police also found RM100,000 hidden under the front floor mat on the driver’s side, which was offered to two Bukit Aman traffic personnel who arrested him to let him go. — Bernama