Cops nab three, seize RM4mil worth of drugs

Supt Wan Hassan (left) showing the seized drugs during a press cenference in Nibong Tebal on Wednesday.

NIBONG TEBAL: South Seberang Prai police seized 42kg of drugs worth more than RM4mil and detained three people, including a Vietnamese woman.

South Seberang Prai OCPD Supt Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad said a local man, aged 52 and an Indonesian national, aged 39 were nabbed when they were transferring the drugs,  believed to be syabu, in two bags from a Toyota Harrier to a Mercedes Benz at Jalan Paboi, Bukit Tambun near here in the 11.30am incident on Tuesday.

Supt Wan Hassan said the seizure was the biggest in the district and also in the state this year.

He said in a follow-up operation police raided the house of the local at Taman Bakap Indah near here and detained a 27-year-old  Vietnamese woman. There, they seized 0.5gm of syabu, 10.9 gms of estacy pills and 0.8gm of Eramine pills .