Tuesday September 14, 2010
Ugandan woman nabbed with 3kg of syabu
GEORGE TOWN: A Ugandan woman was nabbed with 3kg of syabu with a street value of RM750,000 at the Penang Inter_national Airport here. The woman, 56, was on a transit flight from Bangkok when authorities suspected something amiss as she was behaving suspiciously. Custom officers and policemen stopped and scanned her bag and found the drugs hidden in a secret compartment.
Penang deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm (I) Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said the woman had sealed the syabu in layers of plastic bags before keeping them in the modified bag. “The layers of plastic prevent the syabu from being easily detected by its smell,” he told a press conference yesterday.
Busted: SAC Tun Hisan at the press conference with the trolley bag in which the syabu was found in a hidden compartment.
SAC Tun Hisan said the authorities had tightened their surveillance at the airport following intelligence report that a Kenyan and an Iranian suspected of drug trafficking had been nabbed at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok few days ago.
“We believe an international syndicate is behind the suspect and they are now using foreigners as drug mules instead of locals,” he said. Investigations, according to SAC Tun Hisan, revealed that the suspect had entered Malaysia twice before and stayed for three days during each visit.
