KOTA BARU: Kelantan police arrested four men and seized yaba pills and ketum from two different locations, including a tahfiz school in Ketereh suspected of storing 100kg of ketum, on Tuesday (July 18).
Kelantan police chief Datuk Muhamad Zaki Harun said the tahfiz school was the second location raided on the same day, which resulted in the discovery of 10 black plastic packets believed to contain ketum leaves.
"One suspect tested positive for methamphetamine while another had drug-related offences on his record.
"The raid on the tahfiz school was carried out after the four suspects, in their 20s, were nabbed in the first raid on a house in Jalan Tali Air Kampung But, Ketereh at about 9pm that day,” he said in a statement on Wednesday (July 19).
Muhamad Zaki said that in the first raid, police seized 20 plastic packets filled with about 20 litres of ketum liquid, as well as four plastic packets containing green leaves believed to be ketum and weighing an estimated 40kg.
"Upon further investigation, police also found and seized a cigarette packet containing suspected yaba pills, a large pot containing about 10 litres of boiled ketum water, two gas cylinders and a stove, with the total seizure estimated at RM4,522,” he said.
He also said the four suspects have been remanded for four days until Saturday (July 22) and the case is being investigated under sections 12(2) and 15(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and Section 30(3) of the Poisons Act 1952. – Bernama
