KUALA LUMPUR: Police detained a neighborhood married couple suspected of being concerned within the distribution of 244 compressed lumps of cannabis, valued at an estimated RM605,000, across the metropolis on Wednesday (Feb 16).
Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief Datuk Yahaya Othman stated the couple, aged 27 and 29, was arrested at 7.50pm throughout Ops Arlene close to a carpark within the metropolis.
He stated the couple’s modus operandi was to conduct their enterprise on-line and they’re believed to have been energetic for the previous month.
“Following their arrest, police raided an residence and confiscated two drug processing machines, 244 compressed lumps of cannabis weighing 242kg and 7 packages believed to include drug processing supplies for the native market.
“We additionally consider that the suspects used their residence to course of the medicine. The couple additionally has a two-year-old youngster,” he informed a press convention on the Kuala Lumpur Contingent police headquarters right here on Friday (Feb 18).
He stated police additionally seized 10kg of compressed lumps believed to be cannabis and a four-wheel-drive car.
According to Yahaya, the whole worth of the seizures was estimated at RM740,000, inclusive of the drug processing paraphernalia and the car.
He stated one of many suspects examined optimistic for medicine and that each didn’t have any prison information.
Both suspects have been remanded till Feb 24 for additional investigation below Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952. – Bernama
