Cops smash meth trafficking syndicate, nine men nabbed
Kedah police busted a methamphetamine trafficking syndicate with the arrest of nine men in three separate operations in Kuala Nerang last Thursday and Saturday.
Kedah police chief Datuk Fisol Salleh said in the three arrests, his men succeeded in seizing more than 20kg of syabu and 130kg of ketum leaves, estimated to be worth more than RM730,000.
“The first arrest was that of a 52-year-old man on Thursday at 10.30pm in front of a house in Kampung Lamdin, with police seizing a backpack with several plastic packages containing methamphetamine weighing more than 18kg.
“Police later raided a house in the same village at 11pm and arrested six men including a Thai national, aged 26 to 39,” he told a press conference here yesterday.
He said an inspection of a storeroom at the side of the house found a transparent plastic packet containing methamphetamine estimated to weigh 22.90g, along with drugrelated paraphernalia.
Further inspection at the back of the house yielded 18 sacks containing ketum leaves estimated to weigh 130kg, he added.
“In the third arrest on Saturday at 6am, police arrested two men aged 25 and 34 near a petrol station in Kampung Padang Kerasak. The suspects attempted to escape after realising the presence of police but were successfully arrested,” he said.
Fisol said an examination of a bag thrown away by the suspects found a transparent plastic package containing methamphetamine and a
transparent plastic package containing the same drug, estimated to weigh more than 2kg.
“Eight of the suspects tested positive for drugs and some of them have criminal records. — Bernama