IPOH: Perak police have arrested a person believed to be a drug trafficker and seized roughly 13 kg of heroin from a carpark on the Rural Transformation Centre (RTC) in Gopeng close to right here yesterday.
Perak Police Chief Datuk Seri Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri mentioned that the unemployed 40-year-old man was apprehended at 9.25 pm by a workforce of police from the state’s Narcotics Crime Investigation Department, in collaboration with the Expressway Mobile Patrol Vehicle (EMPV) of the Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department (JSPT) from Bukit Aman.
“The inspection contained in the suspect’s automobile revealed suspected heroin weighing roughly 13.1 kg, estimated to be value RM111,000, and money amounting to RM206 was additionally seized.
“A urine take a look at discovered the suspect optimistic for methamphetamine. The suspect additionally has a earlier felony report,“ he mentioned in a press release at present.
Mohd Yusri added that primarily based on the investigation, the suspect has been actively concerned in drug trafficking actions since early January this yr, and the seized medication are suspected to be supposed for distribution within the native market across the state.
He added that the suspect has been remanded for per week beginning at present to help within the investigation beneath Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.–eNM
