JASIN: Police have crippled an international drug distribution syndicate with the seizure of over RM3.8 million worth of syabu and ecstasy pills in a series of raids in Melaka and Selangor last Wednesday (Jan 4).
Melaka police chief Datuk Zainol Samah said eight local suspects, comprising six men and two women, were arrested during the raids.
The suspects, who included two married couples, were aged between 25 and 48, he added.
He said the first raid was conducted at 3 pm in Serkam, Jasin, where two men and a woman were arrested in a car in front of the house.
Following checks in the house, police arrested another man and a woman, as well as seized 82.64 kilogrammes of syabu, worth RM2.975 million, and 16.62 kg of ecstasy pills(RM831,000), he told a press conference here Friday.
Zainol said the syabu drug was found in sacks and tea bag packets, while the ecstasy pills were found in clear plastic bags, each containing about 5,000 pills.
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