ASP and six policemen nabbed in Kedah and KL over drugs
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Kedah Police Chief Comm Police Datuk Asri Yusoff (right) and STING senior commander ACP Baharom Othman (second from right) showing journalists some of the syabu which was found hidden inside the speaker of one of the suspects' cars.
ALOR SETAR: A police assistant superintendent and six rank-and-file men were among eight people nabbed by federal narcotics officers in raids carried out over two days in Kedah and Kuala Lumpur.
Some RM6.7mil in drugs and RM800,000 in jewellery, cash and cars were also seized in the operation by Bukit Aman's Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (STING).
Three of the policemen were from the CID headquarters in Bukit Aman, Kedah police chief Comm Datuk Asri Yusoff said Wednesday at a joint press conference here with STING strike force commander Asst Comm Baharom Othman.
“The three rank-and-file personnel arrested in Kedah were squad mates in the police training college and were posted here after their training.
"They had been working in the state for six years,” he said.
The arrests and seizures were the culmination of STING's surveillance of the suspects for nearly a year, he added.
Comm Asri said three raids were conducted in Kedah and two in Kuala Lumpur on Monday and Tuesday.
The first raid was carried out at 7.50pm on Monday at Felda Sungai Tiang, Pendang, Kedah.
Three men were arrested in two cars they were driving.
From one of the cars, police recovered 75kg of syabu and 7.4kg of heroin-based substances.
The second raid was carried at about 8pm at a laundry shop in Changlun, Kedah, where police detained a local man.
About an hour late, police raided one of the suspects' home in Felda Sungai Tiang, where 70g of cannabis was found in the living room.
The raids in Kuala Lumpur were made at 12.30am Tuesday when STING officers raided a house in Jalan Tun Razak and detained three men.
Another man was arrested at 2.40pm that day, also in Jalan Tun Razak.
Some 4,040 "yaba" pills were seized in the Kuala Lumpur raids.
Kedah Police Chief Comm Police Datuk Asri Yusoff (right) and STING senior commander ACP Baharom Othman (second from right) showing journalists some of the syabu which was found hidden inside the speaker of one of the suspects' cars.
ALOR SETAR: A police assistant superintendent and six rank-and-file men were among eight people nabbed by federal narcotics officers in raids carried out over two days in Kedah and Kuala Lumpur.
Some RM6.7mil in drugs and RM800,000 in jewellery, cash and cars were also seized in the operation by Bukit Aman's Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (STING).
Three of the policemen were from the CID headquarters in Bukit Aman, Kedah police chief Comm Datuk Asri Yusoff said Wednesday at a joint press conference here with STING strike force commander Asst Comm Baharom Othman.
“The three rank-and-file personnel arrested in Kedah were squad mates in the police training college and were posted here after their training.
"They had been working in the state for six years,” he said.
The arrests and seizures were the culmination of STING's surveillance of the suspects for nearly a year, he added.
Comm Asri said three raids were conducted in Kedah and two in Kuala Lumpur on Monday and Tuesday.
The first raid was carried out at 7.50pm on Monday at Felda Sungai Tiang, Pendang, Kedah.
Three men were arrested in two cars they were driving.
From one of the cars, police recovered 75kg of syabu and 7.4kg of heroin-based substances.
The second raid was carried at about 8pm at a laundry shop in Changlun, Kedah, where police detained a local man.
About an hour late, police raided one of the suspects' home in Felda Sungai Tiang, where 70g of cannabis was found in the living room.
The raids in Kuala Lumpur were made at 12.30am Tuesday when STING officers raided a house in Jalan Tun Razak and detained three men.
Another man was arrested at 2.40pm that day, also in Jalan Tun Razak.
Some 4,040 "yaba" pills were seized in the Kuala Lumpur raids.
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