Suspected drug dealer shot dead in L Datu
Published on: Saturday, May 16, 2020
By: Efa Rizan
Nasri and his men showing the machete and seized drugs.
LAHAD DATU: A man in his 30s wanted for drug trafficking was shot dead by police after he attacked policemen while trying to evade arrest at the Ladang Rimmer oil palm plantation in Jalan Silabukan, near here, Thursday.Lahad Datu District Police Chief ACP Nasri Mansor said the suspect, identified as Tas or Tans, died on the spot in the incident, which happened between 9pm and 9.30pm.
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He said a police team conducting the “Op Cantas” came across the suspect who was riding his motorcycle in a suspicious manner.
“When policemen tried to stop him, he swung his parang at them several times,” he told a press conference here, Friday.
Nasri said policemen then fired several shots, which hit the suspect in the chest.
Police seized a 56cm-long parang and six packets of syabu weighing 13.6gm from the scene.
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“This man was identified as the prime suspect in a Section 326 of the Penal Code (causing injury) which occurred at the same plantation on May 5,” he said, adding no documents were found on the suspect.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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The case is being investigated under Section 307 of the Penal Code and Section 39A(1) of the Dangerous Drug Act 1952.
