Published: Monday December 23, 2013 MYT 12:15:00 PM
Updated: Monday December 23, 2013 MYT 2:18:23 PM
Drug syndicate busted in Penang
BY WINNIE YEOH
GEORGE TOWN: Police crippled a drug syndicate here when they raided two labs in Simpang Ampat and Bagan Ajam over the weekend, and seized drugs worth more than RM600,000.
Four individuals, including two women, were also arrested during the two separate raids on Dec 20 and Dec 21.
Penang deputy police chief Dep Comm Datuk A. Thaiveegan said police first raided a house in Simpang Ampat on Dec 20 around 9pm and seized 700g of syabu worth RM180,000.
A 43-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman were arrested, and both remanded until Friday.
In the second raid at a premises in Bagan Ajam, police seized 1.2kg of syabu and 2.28kg of heroin worth RM420,000.
"We also confiscated drug-processing equipment and chemicals during both raids," he said in a press conference at the Penang Road police station here Monday.
He added that in the second raid, a 56-year-old man and 28-year-old Thai woman were arrested and remanded until Saturday.
DCP Thaiveegan said police believed the suspects had been active in their respective areas in the past four to six months.
All those nabbed are being investigated under Section 39(B) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, he added.
