ALOR SETAR: Police seized 533 slabs of compressed cannabis weighing a total of
527.9 kilogrammes worth RM1.58 million in an operation carried out around Kuala Kedah near here early Wednesday morning.
Bukit Aman’s Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) director Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh said in the operations, carried out from 6.20am to 7.40am, the police arrested four local men aged between 20 and 33, on suspicion of being involved in drug smuggling and trafficking syndicate.
“In the first raid involving a 33-year-old man who was detained while driving his vehicle to Kuala Lumpur at the traffic lights at Jalan Kuala Kedah.
“The check on the suspect’s vehicle found 533 slabs of compressed cannabis worth RM1.58 million, hidden in the car boot and covered with cloth,” he told a press conference at the Kedah police contingent headquarters here yesterday.
Mohmad said the drugs found in the vehicle were believed to be for the local market, including Sabah and Sarawak.
He said during the second raid, carried out an hour after the first arrest, police detained another three men around the estuary of the Sungai Kuala Kedah and believed to be involved in the same syndicate. — Bernama