GEORGE TOWN: Penang police seized 17 packages of Chinese tea suspected to contain syabu, weighing 17.3 kilogrammes (kg) and worth RM571,500, in a raid.
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 23 Penang police detained seven men and seized 840.729 kilogrammes of cannabis worth RM2.1 million in a series of raids in the state and Perak on.
GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) has crippled a drug processing and distribution syndicate here with the arrest of a 32-year-old man.
GEORGE TOWN: Eighteen people, including a teenage school dropout, have been arrested over an online loan scam that caused RM3mil in losses.
Penang Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Asst Comm Mohd Rosni Mohd Lazim said the group members, aged between 16 and 23, were arrested in two raids in Batu Ferringhi on July 15.
“During the raid on a house in Jalan Sungai Emas Satu at 1am, we arrested 12 people, including two women. Preliminary investigations show that one of the suspects is a tenant of the house while the underaged boy is a dropout.
“We seized 34 mobile phones, two laptops and 14 ATM cards,” he told reporters at the Penang police contingent headquarters here yesterday.ACP Mohd Rosni said following the first raid, one of the suspects led police to another house in Solok Sungai Emas, Batu Ferringhi, on the same day, which led to the further arrest of five men and a woman.