Man leaves 4-year old daughter alone in car to buy drugs

34 people were arrested during a drug raid at an oill palm plantation near the Sungai Udang Prison in Melaka. One of the man who was arrested during the raid left his four-year-old daughter alone in his car.

The lure of a quick 'fix' was simply too irresistible for a man.
He left his four-year-old daughter alone in his car and parked it by the road-shoulder to beat a path, deep inside an oil palm plantation to buy drugs from a supplier.

This was what the police learnt when they arrested the man during a drug raid at an oil palm plantation near the Sungai Udang Prison here yesterday.

During the 12-hour drug raid, beginning 6am, a police team picked up 34 people aged between 26 and 62.

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Indonesian woman drug mule nabbed

LANGKAWI AIRPORT BUST: RM665,000 worth of syabu wrapped in foil, hidden in bag's special compartment

ALOR STAR: AN Indonesian woman was detained with 3.501kg of syabu, worth about RM665,000, at the Langkawi International Airport on Friday.

The suspect, 28, from Jakarta had arrived from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang when she was arrested about 11am.

State Customs Department director Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Latif said officers ran a background check on the suspect after an airport scanner revealed an ambiguous object inside her bag.

"A package wrapped with aluminium foil was found hidden inside a special compartment of the bag.

State Customs Department director Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Latif (centre) with his officers showing the drugs seized from an Indonesian woman at the Langkawi International Airport.


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Drug syndicates switch mules to avoid detection

Nigerian drug syndicates are recruiting other nationalities to avoid getting caught.

Drugs worth RM18m found

Police found syabu and Erimin worth RM18 million from the laboratory that was partially destroyed in a fire at the Pekan Nenas New Industrial Estate on Monday.

Investigations also revealed that a major drug syndicate, with foreign links, was using the frozen food factory as a front for the drug lab.

Stiffer penalties for sale of unregistered medicine

Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob (2nd from right) Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai (2nd from left) give a go at calligraphy at the CNY Open House organised by the Kuantan Tionghua societies in Kuantan.

The Health Ministry is considering the proposal of stiffer penalties, such as imprisonment, for those found guilty of selling unregistered medicine which endangered the public, said its minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

The ministry is amending several laws related to acts governing the sector, to protect consumers and take sterner action against those who breach regulations, he said.

Tighter scrutiny at checkpoints

STRINGENT checks on all vehicles, both Malaysian registered and foreign ones, were seen at the border checkpoint, here yesterday.



A three-hour observation by the New Straits Times saw owners of the vehicles abiding by all rules and regulations and instructions given by the authorities at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (CIQC) as their vehicles were thoroughly checked.

Boots of passenger vehicles leaving and entering the country were inspected by Customs officers.

Pick-up trucks, in particular, were subjected to thorough screening to detect modified vehicles transporting Malaysian subsidised fuel out of the country and also smuggling of controlled items at the Anti-Smuggling Unit (UPP) checkpoint, about five kilometres from the CIQC.

Some of the passengers, when asked, said they were used to the situation as they had been going through such thorough checks for some time now.

Syabu worth RM630m seized, four arrested

The Customs Department and police seized five million syabu pills which could be worth about RM630 million if reprocessed in an operation last Saturday.



Customs assistant director (Enforcement Division), Datuk Zainul Abidin Taib said the seizure was made at the PLUS Highway Bukit Tagar exit road, northbound from Klang, at about 8.30pm on Dec 31, 2011.

"The pills weighing 903.2 kg could produce more than 80 million pills if reprocessed," he told a news conference, here, today.

He said a Singaporean man, a Taiwanese and two local men aged between 40 and 50 were also arrested during the operation.

5 million Syabu pills worth RM630 million seized, 4 men arrested

The customs department and the police have seized five million Syabu pills, which could be worth about RM630 million if reprocessed, in an operation last Saturday.

Smuggling of drugs amplified

HIDDEN: Govinden (centre) showing the syabu packets stashed inside the amplifiers

WHEN a courier agent came to the Royal Customs Department Complex at KL International Airport (KLIA) last Saturday at 10pm to pick up three mid-size consignments, there wasn't a reason for the authorities to doubt anything.

Except, for the fact the man came in a Perodua Viva and not a lorry -- the common transport of choice for cargo pick-ups.

Suspicion further heightened when Customs officers found the packages, declared as megaphones on the consignment documents, to be heavier than what the cone-shaped horn used to amplify voices or sounds, should be.

The officers asked the agent to open one of the boxes. Inside was an amplifier.

Suspecting something amiss, Customs opened the amplifier to find five packets of syabu stashed inside its components.

Drugs at your feet

BUSTED: Govinden (far right) showing the hidden syabu. The floor mats were sealed with blue carbon plastics


THE floor mats stuffed inside his backpack did not raise suspicion. But his movements about the KL International Airport (KLIA) did.

On Monday at 7.42am, KLIA Customs officers saw an Indian national suspiciously roaming about the airport's Passenger Terminal 1 Complex with a backpack. The man had just arrived from Delhi on a transit flight from Chennai to Kuala Lumpur.

KLIA Customs director, Datuk M. Govinden, said when officers screened the bag, they only saw three floor mats and clothes inside it.

"He was casually dressed and from his style, we thought he was on a day-visit to Malaysia."

The man, 34, began acting up when officers sought to open and check his bag.

International drug ring busted, drugs worth RM20 mil seized

: Police detained 11 men, including six foreigners, and seized ecstasy and syabu (methamphetamine) worth over RM20 million in two raids at a factory and a house in Penang, both of which were being used to process the drugs, on Friday.

The simultaneous operation conducted by personnel from the Federal Police (Bukit Aman) and Kedah Narcotics Criminal Investigation Departments at 5am crippled the international drug syndicate.

Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said police detained five men, comprising a Dutch who was the ring leader, two from Singapore and one each from France and Britain in the raid at the factory located in the Mergong Industrial Park here.

He said another British national was arrested along with four locals around the city following the raid in Mergong.

"Another local man was detained at a house in Penang which also served as a drug processing laboratory, but it was not as big as the one in Alor Setar (at the factory)," he told a news conference at the Kedah police Headquarters here today.

Man plunges to death while fleeing drug bust

DEADLY ESCAPE: The body of the suspected drug pusher being carried off by police


A suspected drug pusher fell to his death while trying to escape from the police from the seventh floor of a four-star hotel here yesterday.

Police had raided the seventh-floor room at 9.25am following a tip-off, said South Klang district police chief ACP Mohamad Mat Yusop.

He said said they arrested three suspects in the room.

"This caused a fourth suspect in a connecting room to climb out of

Police find a hike in drugs seized while on transit, 250,000 detained

The amount of drugs seized while on transit through the country is staggering and on the rise if police seizures and drug-related arrests are accurate indicators. And they may just be the tip of the iceberg.

According to police, close to a quarter million people have been arrested for drug-related offences and hundreds of millions of ringgit worth of drugs, smuggled in face cream containers, laptop computers and secret compartments in luggage, have been seized since last year.

Federal Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said today that compared to last year, police had noted an 83% jump in heroin trafficking this year, and that 245,456 people had been arrested for various drug-related offences since last year.

Man held with RM500,000 drugs

The state Customs Department scored its biggest syabu bust with the arrest of a businessman last Friday.

The 31-year-old was nabbed with 2.1kg of drugs, valued at RM500,000, at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex here at 9pm.

State Customs Department director Datuk Abdul Azizi Abdul Latiff said the suspect was on a bus en route to Johor Baru from Hat Yai when he was detained.

Ketamine from India sent via Pos Laju seized

The Penang Customs and Excise Department has severed a drug pipeline into the country, with the seizure of two kilogrammes of ketamine at a house in Seberang Jaya.

Following a 12.45pm raid at the house yesterday, a team of enforcement officers found the drug hidden in secret compartments of four brief-cases.

A 26-year-old housewife was arrested to shed light on the seizure.

Police smash drug ring with RM16m seize

Police seized about RM16 million worth of drugs in several operations and busted a drug processing and distribution syndicate, the state’s biggest haul so far this year.

In the first case, the narcotics team seized some RM10.53 million worth of drugs and arrested 10 men and four women, including two Chinese nationals, aged between 20 and 52 years old, who are believed to be involved in a drug processing and distribution syndicate.

Drugs in car pistons leave cops amused

'SILLY' ATTEMPT: The seized car pistons containing drugs


Another foolish technique of smuggling drugs has emerged with the arrest of a Nigerian who concealed 1.4kg of syabu (methamphetamine) worth RM350,000 in 10 car engine pistons.

The suspect, aged 28, attempted to dupe police officers at the KL International Airport (KLIA) that the pistons, kept among his clothes in a suitcase, were to be delivered to a car accessories outlet here.

The man landed here last Sunday from Dubai, and naturally police were puzzled as to why he would fly 5,533km to KL to deliver 10 boxes of pistons.

Today in Picture Drug Addicts on bike struggle with policemen.

An addict that tried to escape with a motorcycle was arrested by the police during the "Port Hutan" raid at Jengka 10 last night.

An addict that tried to escape with a motorcycle was arrested by the police during the "Port Hutan" raid at Jengka 10 last night.

Application by Benjy for release dismissed by High Court - Benjy will be held for 2 years in Muar.

The High Court here has dismissed a harbeas corpus application filed by actor Khaeryll Benjamin Ibrahim - better known as Benjy - that sought his release from detention.

Judge Mohd Sofian Abd Razak said on Wednesday that Benjy's re-arrest on March 25 under Section 3 of the Dangerous Drugs Act (Special Preventive Measures) was valid.

The court was also informed by Senior Federal Counsel Najib Zakaria that Benjy was sent to a rehabilitation centre in Muar, Johor on Wednesday morning under the directive of Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop.

2 years at Muar detention centre for Benjy

NO MORE DRAMA : Amir Hamzah (right) and Azean (centre) with her family leaving the High Court after proceedings today

The High Court this morning dismissed the habeas corpus application by actor Khaireyll Benjamin Ibrahim or Benjy.

Judge Datuk Mohd Sofian Abd Razak made the decision this morning. Benjy was detained under Section 6 of the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) 1985 which resulted him to be detained for two years maximum at Muar detention centre in Johor.

The detention order, although signed by Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop yesterday evening, only came about to both counsels this morning.

Senior Federal counsel Najib Zakaria said he was only informed of the detention order this morning and that Benjy was also sent to the centre this morning.

Following the decision, Benjy’s counsel Amer Hamzah Rashid said he would file an appeal to the Federal Court while he would also file a new application for habeas corpus to challenge the provision under Section 6.