Deadly colours: Comm Shazeli (centre) and other senior officers displaying the seized drugs during a press conference at the Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam. — KK SHAM/The Star
SHAH ALAM: Police have busted two drug trafficking syndicates in the Klang Valley and seized 203.1kg of drugs worth RM25.15mil in several raids around Subang Jaya and Serdang.
Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Shazeli Kahar said in the first bust, six men and a woman aged between 30 and 56 were arrested and assets including three vehicles and cash amounting to RM158,350 were seized in raids carried out on Oct 1 and 5.
He said the first arrest at 5.50pm on Oct 1 involved three men in a vehicle in front of a house in Subang Jaya where police found 50.3g of syabu (methamphetamine).
Three individuals, two male and a woman, were arrested in the house and 1.59kg of syabu and 100g of ecstasy were seized.
“Interrogation of the suspects led to a raid on a second house in Subang Jaya. A total of 111.89kg of ecstasy pills and powder, 20.4kg of heroin, 1.8kg of heroin base, 17 bottles of liquid chemicals and three bottles of powdered chemicals were seized,” he said at a press conference at the Selangor police headquarters in Shah Alam.
Comm Shazeli said investigations found that the house was used to process and store drugs before distribution around the Klang Valley.
“Five of the six suspects have records for drug-related offences and all tested positive for drugs,” he said.
In the second case, police stopped and arrested a mechanic by the roadside in Serdang at 1am on Sunday.
Comm Shazeli said the suspect had modified the boot of his sports utility vehicle to store the drugs.
He said the compartment, which contained 63.7kg of syabu and 20.1kg of ecstasy pills estimated to value RM5.4mil, required an access card to open.
The 39-year-old suspect is believed to be a runner to deliver drugs to Selangor and Johor and was paid RM1,000 to RM3,000 per trip, Bernama reported.
“Further checks found that the suspect had two previous drug-related offences and he also tested positive for drugs,” he said.
Comm Shazeli said all seven suspects were remanded for seven days to assist in investigations.
