Couple to face music over drug haul

Lethal substance: ACP Rusli (middle) showing the chemicals seized from the drug lab. With him are central Seberang Prai district police Narcotics Crime Investigation Department chief ASP Pua Kok Shih (left) and case investigation officer Insp Mohd Halizat Mazuki.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A man with five criminal records and a Chinese national woman were nabbed after police found drugs worth RM45,000 in their rented condominium unit in Jalan Lestari, Prai.

A state narcotics department team stormed the unit to pick up the man, 34, and woman, 24, at 2.30pm on Wednesday.