Major haul: DCP Ahmad Dzaffir presenting some of the drug-processing items seized during the raids in Seremban. — Bernama
SEREMBAN: Police have severed a major drug pipeline to the Klang Valley following the seizure of over 274kg of drugs valued at RM38.9mil.
The drugs were discovered during a series of raids on warehouses and illegal laboratories in four different locations on March 13.
Negri Sembilan police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Ahmad Dzaffir Mohd Yussof said the drugs included ketamine, heroin, methamphetamine, ecstasy powder and cannabis, as well as 125,258 ecstasy pills and 39,242 Eramin 5 pills, which could cater to 442,548 drug users.
He said during the operations, a vehicle, cash and jewellery worth a combined total of RM253,413 were also confiscated.
“This smashing success was the result of information and intelligence gathered over the past three months at separate locations involving the light industrial area and three houses.
“At the light industrial area, we arrested a 52-year-old local man and seized various drugs worth RM239,130,” he said yesterday, Bernama reported.
DCP Ahmad Dzaffir said interrogation of the suspect, believed to be a caretaker for a syndicate and who acted as a sentinel, led police to three houses used for storage.
He said a raid on a house in Taman Sri Rahang also hauled in various drugs worth RM38,670,280, while another raid in Taman Bidara seized a pill press (tableting) machine.
“As for the raid at the fourth location in Taman Bukit Kaya, we found 96 plastic barrels containing powdered and liquid chemicals for processing drugs and six sacks of chemical powders.”
He said the syndicate had started its operations a year ago to lace the market in the Klang Valley and south of the country.
