Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Anti-Narcotics Crime Investigation Department arrested two individuals in connection with the seizure of more than 10kg of syabu worth RM396,000.
Its Chief ACP Lam Thiam Huat said the first seizure was made at 12.30pm on Thursday after they caught a 29-year-old foreign man carrying a brown box at the car park of Cybercity in Kepayan.
“Upon inspection, police found four packets containing more than 6kg of syabu worth RM240,000, which led to the recovery of three packets of syabu weighing more than 3kg and worth RM120,000 in an apartment in Penampang on the same day,” he told a media conference here, Wednesday.
Lam said in a follow-up operation on Monday, police seized a package containing 10 packets of syabu weighing more than 1kg, valued at RM36,000, from the Tenom Post Office.
“At 7.30pm on the same day, police picked up a 28-year-old woman to help in investigation. Police also seized several assets, including a Toyota Vios car, two motorcycles, a gold chain and cash, all worth almost RM100,000,” he said.
He said the drugs, which could be used by 50,000 addicts, were believed to have been sent by courier from Peninsular Malaysia for distribution in a neighbouring country.
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