SHAH ALAM: Police thwarted an try to visitors in methamphetamine worth RM1.84 million via courier providers after arresting a married couple in Puchong Jaya, close to right here, on June 27.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan stated the 57.6 kilogrammes (kg) of methamphetamine was hid in seven plastic sacks stuffed with soil.
The couple, aged 41 and 42, had been believed to be appearing as ‘transporters’, delivering the gadgets utilizing a lorry pushed by the husband.
“They used the lorry as transportation for the courier supply, carrying seven plastic sacks stuffed with soil to hide 56 packets labelled ‘Guanyingwang’ Chinese tea, suspected to include 57.6 kg of methamphetamine.
“Hiding medicine in soil-filled sacks and delivering them through courier is a brand new modus operandi by drug traffickers that we uncovered via the arrest of each suspects,“ he stated at a press convention on the Selangor police headquarters at this time.
Hussein stated the couple was instructed to select up the drug-filled gadgets in Serdang Jaya and ship them to Puchong Jaya.
Initial investigations revealed that this was their first supply they usually had been believed to have been paid RM51 primarily based on the payment specified within the courier apps.
He stated police are nonetheless investigating whether or not the couple was conscious of the medicine within the sacks they had been transporting.
In a separate case, police seized 26 compressed slabs of dried leaves believed to be marijuana after arresting a 34-year-old man in a parking space on the Sungai Buloh Rest and Service Area at 4.30 am yesterday.
Hussein stated the medicine, weighing 26.25 kg and worth about RM81,375, had been present in a suitcase within the boot of the suspect’s automobile. The suspect examined optimistic for THC medicine.
“The suspects in each instances have been remanded for seven days, and the instances are being investigated underneath Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952,“ he stated.
