Foreigner, 28, held for drugs
BINTULU: A 28-year old foreign man was apprehended by police for involvement in drug abuse activities at Pasar Lama Bintulu on Wednesday (22 March). According to Bintulu OCPD Supt Batholomew Umpit, Bintulu police arrested the 28-year old foreigner for drug distribution and drug abuse activities. The police force made an inspection on him and found […]
Man caught with drugs worth RM3.5 mln
KUCHING: Police picked up a 37-year old man for possessing 35,486 grams of syabu stored in Chinese tea packets worth RM3.5 million in two raids on Wednesday (Mar 8). The drugs were intended to be distributed to 177,430 drug users. Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Mohd Azman Ahmad Sapri said the first raid was at the […]
Confession of a former drug addict
by ROHANA WAHED Feeling happy, calm as if I’m in the clouds – was what Mohd Asraf momentarily felt that led him knocking on the devil’s door. Aged 33, living in the north of the state, Mohd Asraf (not his real name) started becoming addicted to syabu in his early 20s. From trying it out […]
Over 800 arrested in Miri for drug-related offences in 2022
MIRI: Police here arrested 849 people for various drug-related offences last year compared to 563 persons in 2021. Miri OCPD ACP Alexson Naga Chabu stressed that the law was serious in preventing and eradicating drug -related activities. He noted that Miri police had succeeded in reducing the crime rate by 51 per cent last year, […]
Drugs seized from suspect worth over 6.7k
SIBU: Police here arrested a 26-year-old local man and seized from him drugs estimated to be worth more than RM6,700 on Wednesday (Jan 4). Sibu district police chief ACP Zulkipli Suhaili said the suspect was arrested at a house in Lorong Permai Jaya 1B1 here by police personnel from the Sibu district Narcotics Crime Investigation […]
Man nabbed for drug possession in Sibu
SIBU: A 34-year-old man was detained by the police yesterday afternoon (Dec 31) for drug possession. Sibu district police chief ACP Zulkipli Suhaili said that the local man was arrested around 3.30pm at Lorong Nanyang Garden 6 in Sibu. “An inspection was conducted and he was discovered to be in possession of one medium plastic […]
Three picked up in raid for drugs
BINTULU: Two women are among three locals arrested for allegedly being involved in substance abuse last Sunday (Dec 11). According to the Sarawak Marine Police Region 5, an operation was carried out by Bintulu police task force, Bintulu narcotic police and Bintulu Marine police to a bistro in the city. During the raid, a man […]
Local man detained for drugs
KUCHING: A local man, suspected to be involved in drug abuse activities, was detained on Thursday morning (Nov 24) by police. According to Kuching district police chief ACP Ahsmon Bajah, the man was arrested following an information relayed to the police. He said the district’s Narcotic Criminal Investigation Department made the arrest at Jalan Setia […]
Trio nabbed for alleged drug distribution
MIRI: Narcotic police here arrested three men, including two foreigners, for alleged involvement in drug distribution activities on yesterday (Nov 11). Miri OCPD ACP Alexson Naga Chabu in a statement, confirmed that the arrests happened around 5.30pm in front of a market at Lutong. The team managed to detain a 37-year-old local and two foreigners, […]
Man nabbed for possessing drugs
SIBU: Police have arrested a 26-year-old man here on suspicion of drug possession. Sibu police chief ACP Zulkipli Suhaili said the local man was picked up around 1 pm on Thursday (Nov 10) in a house at Jalan Serai. “An inspection conducted found him in possession of several plastic packets containing crystalline substance believed to […]
