Cop spots housewife passing tobacco to man accused of drug trafficking

Evidence: DSP Siti Nor Salawati showing reporters the tobacco in which the compressed pieces of substance, believed to be heroin, was handed over by the mother to her son.

BALIK PULAU: A housewife has been arrested for passing rolled tobacco believed to contain heroin to her son at a magistrate’s courtroom here.

The 56-year-old woman’s son is facing a drug trafficking charge and she was spotted by a court policeman handing over the rolled tobacco to her 35-year-old son while he was being led away from the dock to the court lock-up.