Two held for drug possession

MIRI: Two men were arrested for possessing drugs in Kampung Bungai, Bekenu last Saturday (Sept 18). Acting on information, a police team raided a hut at 10.45pm at the said location and detained the suspects for inspection. The team managed to find 105 pieces of straw tubes containing crystalline substance, believed to be methamphetamine, inside […]

Druggie nabbed in raid at village house

BAU: An unemployed man was arrested for possessing drugs in Kampung Pisa, Krokong this morning (Sept 18). District police chief DSP Poge Nyaon, said a police team acting on public information, raided a house in the village around 10am. The team detained the 33-year-old suspect inside his bedroom and upon inspections found a plastic packet […]

Friends claim trial to drug possession

KUCHING: Two friends pleaded not guilty in the High Court here to allegedly possessing 1.7kg of ecstasy pills. The accused Norlela Abdullah, 39, and Mohamad Amirafi Husini, 36, claimed trial when the charges were read before Judge Alwi Abdul Wahab. They were alleged to have to have committed the offence when enforcement officers set up […]

Cops nab man for drug possession

MIRI: Police arrested a 45-year-old man for possessing drugs in a house at Kampung Baru Subis, Jalan Miri-Bintulu on Monday (Aug 16). Miri police chief ACP Hakemal Hawari said a team from the Miri Narcotics Criminal Department raided the house at 12.15pm and found a transparent plastic packet and 104 straw tubes containing crystalline substance […]

Jobless man arrested for drug possession

PADAWAN: An unemployed man was arrested for possessing drugs worth RM550 at Stapok Resettlement Scheme, Jalan Batu Kawa on Wednesday. A narcotics police team arrested the 24-year-old suspect on the suspicion of being involved in drugs in a house around 2pm. Physical inspections found nothing illegal on the suspect. However, the team found a black […]

Jobless man held for possessing drugs

BAU: An unemployed man was arrested for drug possession at Kampung Segubang here on Monday (July 26). Bau district police chief DSP Poge Nyaon said the police conducted a raid on a house in the village at 5.45am. “The police found a plastic packet containing crystalline lumps believed to be syabu on the floor of […]

Police nab two foreign men, seize drugs worth RM4,200

BINTULU: Police arrested two foreign men and seized syabu worth RM4,200 in separate arrests at Jalan Sungai Nyigu last Friday (July 16). District police chief Supt Zulkipli Suhaili said the suspects aged 36 and 31, were arrested by narcotics police in front of a factory here around 3.30pm. “The team arrested the 36-year-old suspect at […]

Man fails in bid to escape police patrol

BAU: A man, who fled upon seeing a police patrol, did not get far as he was soon arrested. Worse was to follow when he was found in possession of a plastic packet containing 0.62g of syabu, following a body search. In the 10am incident that occurred at Kampung Serasot on Monday (June 28), police […]

Drug couple may face rotan and jail

KUCHING: A couple faces the possibility of being canned up to nine lashes and not more than five years’ jail each if convicted for drug possession. If convicted under Section 39A (1), the suspects can be sentenced to a jail term up to five years and whipping up to nine lashes. They were arrested for […]

Drugs worth RM20k seized

KUCHING: Police seized drugs worth more than RM20,000 from a car at a parking lot of a luxury condominium on Thursday (June 17). Acting on information, narcotics police raided the parking lot around 6pm. District police chief ACP Ahsmon Bajah said the car driver, aged 35, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in drug abuse […]