Cops nab five including Iranian duo with taste for the ‘high’ life
Published on: Tuesday, July 16, 2019
By: Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: Police detain five individuals including a Vietnamese woman and two Iranian men and seized numerous types of drugs worth over RM1.4 million here on Thursday and Friday.
The drugs seized were heroin (19 gm), syabu (25,692 gm), ketamin (1,011 gm), some cash and two pistols including a Walther CP88 and two magazines with 36 bullets.
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Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said that all the suspects, aged 24 to 46 years, were detained by members from the Kuala Lumpur Police Contingent Headquarter’s (KLPCH) Narcotic CID.
He said that police detained a Vietnamese woman and a local man and seized 19 gm of heroin in Dang Wangi Road here in the first arrests on Thursday at 1 am.
‘’Interrogations took police to a condominium and they seized a powder believed to be syabu (2,196 gm) and ketamin (six gm),’’ he told a media conference at KLPCH, Monday.
Meanwhile in the second arrest, Mazlan said that police detained a local man in front of a condominium at the Sungai Besi Highway at 4.50 am.
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“Police seized syabu (23,496 gm), cash and a pistol together with a magazine and 28 bullets.The suspect was believed to have distributed drugs since seven months ago,’’ he said.
In the third raid, Mazlan said that two Iranian men were detained at a condominium in Solaris Road here at about 7.40 pm on Friday.
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‘’Police inspected a Mercedez Benz belonging to the suspects and found ketamin weighing 1005 gm. Police also seized a Walther CP88 pistol and a magazine with eight bullets at the suspects’ condominium,’’ he said.
Preliminary investigation found that one of the suspects had been in the country since 25 years ago and was believed to working as a property agent and actively distributed drugs since six months ago.
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