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KUALA LUMPUR – Four men, including a taxi driver, were arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of trafficking drugs worth RM3.4 million using a taxi.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Saiful Azly Kamaruddin said police found part of the drugs stashed in the taxi’s boot after detaining the first suspect.
The drugs seized included heroin base weighing 31.2kg, 10.1kg of ketamine, 2.6kg of syabu, 930g of ecstasy pills, and 400 Erimin 5 pills weighing 100g.
Saiful said this led to the arrest of three other suspects, and the raid of a house and condominium.
“We surrounded both premises and found various types of drugs stashed there,” he said at a news conference at the Kuala Lumpur police contingent headquarters here today.
He added that police also found a pistol and 23 9mm bullets at the condominium, and seized a Toyota Vios and RM11,782 in cash.
He said all the suspects, locals aged between 34 and 58, had prior records involving criminal and drug-related offences, and that two of them tested positive for drugs.
The case is being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and all the suspects are being remanded for seven days until Wednesday. – Bernama, March 8, 2021
