KUALA LUMPUR: Police detained five individuals including a Vietnamese woman and two Iranian men and seized numerous types of drugs worth over RM1.4 million here on Thursday and Friday.
The drugs seized were heroin (19 gm), syabu (25,692 gm), ketamin (1,011 gm), some cash and two pistols including a Walther CP88 and two magazines with 36 bullets.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said all the suspects, aged 24 to 46 years, were detained by members from the Kuala Lumpur Police Contingent Headquarter’s (KLPCH) Narcotic CID.
He said that police detained a Vietnamese woman and a local man and seized 19 gm of heroin in Jalan Dang Wangi here in the first arrest on Thursday at 1 am.
‘’Interrogations took police to a condominium and they seized some powder believed to be syabu (2,196 gm) and ketamin (6 gm),’’ he told a media conference at KLPCH today.
Mazlan said in the second arrest police detained a local man in front of a condominium at the Sungai Besi Highway at 4.5 am.
“Police seized syabu (23,496 gm), cash and a pistol together with a magazine and 28 bullets.The suspect was believed to have distributed drugs over the last seven months,’’ he said.
In the third raid, Mazlan said two Iranian men were detained at a condominium in Solaris Road here at about 7.40pm on Friday.
“Police inspected a Mercedez Benz belonging to the suspects and found ketamin weighing 1005gm. Police also seized a Walther CP88 pistol and a magazine with eight bullets at the suspects’ condominium,” he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that one of the suspects had been in the country for 25 years and was believed to be working as a property agent and actively distributed drugs over the last six months.
All the suspects were remanded from six to 14 days from their date of arrest for further investigations. The cases are being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for drug trafficking. - Bernama