Couple nabbed over 300kg of ganja worth RM750,000

Mission accomplished: DCP Surina (third from right), Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Tan Cheng San (second from right) and other police officers showing the confiscated ganja during a press conference at the Central Seberang Prai police headquarters in Bukit Mertajam.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A couple, believed to be part of a drug smuggling syndicate, were arrested after police found 300kg of ganja worth RM750,000 in their rented house in Taman Impian here.

Perlis police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Surina Saad said the 41-year-old man and his Indonesian girlfriend, 37, were detained during a raid conducted at about 9pm on July 16.