Drug trafficking hideout hidden in Bukit Gambir forest busted


GEORGE TOWN: Police have busted drug trafficking and processing activities in a forest area near Cangkat Bukit Gambir here following the arrest of a local man on Thursday (Jan 2).

Timur Laut district police chief ACP Abdul Rozak Muhammad said the 47-year-old suspect was arrested in a toilet in the forest by the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department of the Penang police headquarters in a 5pm raid.

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