KOTA KINABALU: Four women who tried to evade police during a drug raid, failed after they were arrested at Kampung Lembaga Padi, Inanam here recently.
It is believed that the women tried to escape through the back door when a police team from the Kota Kinabalu Narcotic Division raided the house around 3.30pm on November 11.
They were all detained and brought to the police station for further investigation.
Acting city police chief DSP Peter Umbuas said further investigation found a plastic bag containing 62 plastic packets of white substance believed to be syabu.
“The drugs, weighing about 9.4 grams with market price at RM2,800, were found in the living room,” he said at a press conference at the city police headquarters in Karamunsing here yesterday.
Umbuas said the suspects, aged 22 to 50, did not have any documents on them when they were arrested.
He said the case would be investigated under Section 39 A (1) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which carries a jail term of between two and five years and also liable to whipping of between three and nine strokes.
Meanwhile, police have arrested a local man for possessing 5.25 grams of syabu valued at RM1,500 in Sembulan.
Umbuas said the arrest was made when the suspect was acting suspiciously inside his vehicle around 3.40pm.
“Further investigation unearthed a bag of plastic containing 16 plastic packets of syabu,” he said, adding that the preliminary urine test on the suspect came back positive for drug abuse.
The suspect has been remanded and investigated under Section 39A (1) and Section 15 (1) (a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.