Police nab four relatives, seize heroin worth RM218,000

KOTA BHARU: The police detained two siblings and their teenage nephew and niece in connection with the seizure of 436 grammes of heroin during a raid at a house in Rantau Panjang last Monday.

The heroin contained in 109 bottles was worth about RM218,000.

At the time of the 4pm raid in Kampung Banggol Kulim, a police team had to force open the bathroom door as a 23-year- old man – believed to be the main suspect – was hiding there with a package containing part of the drug.

As the police were about to close in on the man, he threw the package onto the roof of a neighbour’s house. The package was recovered by the police.

Kelantan police chief Datuk Hasanuddin Hassan said the other suspects comprised the man’s sister and their nephew and niece aged between 16 and 40, who were also in the house at the time of the raid.

They were picked up by an intelligence team from the Eighth Battalion of the Police General Operations Force, he told reporters at the state police contingent headquarters here yesterday.

He said the suspects were remanded for a week, beginning yesterday.

“Initial investigations revealed that the main suspect, a labourer, had obtained the drug from a Thai man nicknamed ‘Pak Ya’.

“The suspect was believed to have received RM250 each time he kept the drug and distributed it in the local market,” he said, adding that the man was involved in the crime over the past two months.

Meanwhile, Hasanuddin said 13,838 drug-related cases involving RM11.7 million were recorded in the state from early January until on Tuesday with 16,334 people detained. — Bernama