The two students being brought to the district Narcotics Crime Investigation Department to get their urine tested.
KUCHING: Two students were detained for breaking into an unoccupied house in Bandar Baru Semariang yesterday morning.
The Form 3 boys were nabbed by police around 8.15am following a call from a next-door neighbour who heard sounds of window panes being broken, and saw the students climbing into the house.
The prompt arrival of police sent the students scampering from the house, but patrolmen apprehended them after a brief chase and hauled them to the police station for questioning.
According to the neighbour, the house had been vacant for about a year as the owner was working in Peninsular Malaysia.
Both he and the owner’s younger sibling would periodically check on it. During each check, they find the inside of the house vandalised and the floor littered with cigarette butts and garbage.
The neighbour suspects the students from a nearby secondary school had been using the house as a ‘hideout’ when playing truant, and was worried they could be dabbling in drugs or sniffing glue.
Police checked the two students for drug abuse before notifying their parents and the school about the arrest.