GEORGE TOWN (BERNAMA) – Malaysian police smashed a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of four men, including three elderly individuals, and seizure of illegal substances worth MYR178,500 in raids.
Penang police chief Datuk Hamzah Ahmad said the raids were conducted by a team from the state Narcotics Crime Investigation Department at several locations between 9.05am and 9.30pm on Friday.
“Police first arrested a 59-year-old man in the parking lot of a residential area here, believed involved in drug trafficking, and seized 115 grammes (g) of heroin valued at RMYR20,” he said.
“Following interrogation of the man, police raided a house in the area and a search showed one of the rooms was used as a drug processing lab by the syndicate led by the suspect.
“Police seized 377g of heroin base valued at MYR32,500, 1,474g of heroin worth MYR11,792, 4,099g of methamphetamine worth MYR132,000 and 3,474g of caffeine worth MYR1,200, as well as various utensils used to process methamphetamine and heroin,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Hamzah said police subsequently apprehended three men aged 60 to 62 in separate raids in Air Itam and Bandar Baru, all believed to be members of the syndicate. Police also seized two plastic packets of heroin weighing 10.1g valued at MYR88.
