KUALA LUMPUR: Police have advised partygoers to avoid consuming "unknown" drinks at entertainment outlets in the city for fear that they might contain drugs.
City police chief Datuk Mazlan Lazim said this comes following police discovery that several syndicates have been supplying the pre-mixed drinks to entertainment centres.
“The mixture of ketamine and ecstacy were found in the pre-mixed drinks which were supplied to these entertainment centres. It is meant to make consumers high which in turn will encourage them to return (to the premises).
“We advise the public to be vigilant of such tactics as it will result in positive urine test,” he told a press conference today.
In the recent bust on Monday, Mazlan said police nabbed a man and a woman in their 20s at Jalan Gembira in Kuchai Lama.
The couple led the police to an apartment in Happy Garden here and seized more than 10 packets of pre-mixed lime juice drinks, each comprised of 15 sachets.
The raiding team also seized loose packets of hot chocolate and ginseng beverages believed to have been mixed with ecstacy and ketamine.
Mazlan said each sachet could serve up to five people, priced at RM250 per jug.
The seized items cost about RM100,000.
In another case, police nabbed a 31-year-old man at a parking lot of an apartment in Cheras at 8.50pm on Monday.
“The raiding team seized ecstacy mixed in health drinks weighing 298 grams. The drugs seized are worth RM1,800,” he said, adding that each sachet were sold at RM150.
In the third operation also on the same day, police arrested a man and a woman at a parking lot of a supermarket in Jalan Kepong.
From the duo, police seized 184.6 gram of syabu worth RM3,520 and RM216 in cash.
Checks on the duo revealed both were tested positive for drugs.
The three cases were investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which carries the mandatory death penalty by hanging if convicted.
All detained were remanded until Nov 27.