KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 7 — A ploy by a drug trafficking syndicate to use a surau as a front for their activities, was exposed when police managed to snuff out their illegal activities and arrest a man at 9.45pm on Tuesday.
State Narcotics chief Supt. Roslan Abd Wahid said a 36-year-old man, believed to be a member of the syndicate, normally parked his car in front of a surau situated near his house in Kampung Losong Haji Awang, hoping to dupe the police into believing that he was there for his prayers.
Police who carried out surveillance on the man from Bachok, Kelantan found that the man was an addict and the mastermind in the distribution of drugs in the area since last year.
“The modus operandi of the suspect is to park his car in front of the surau to fool the police and public into believing he was a pious man. The slick man tried to escape police and was involved in a scuffle when police tried to arrest him,” he told reporters here yesterday.
During the arrest police found 67 bottles of heroin weighing 311.6 grams, worth about RM106,000, in a Proton Perdana car that was parked at the surau.
Roslan said five minutes after his arrest, police also managed to detain six other suspects, including a woman, who were hiding in his house.
“When raiding his house we found 800 metamphetamine pills worth about RM24,000,” he said. — Bernama
State Narcotics chief Supt. Roslan Abd Wahid said a 36-year-old man, believed to be a member of the syndicate, normally parked his car in front of a surau situated near his house in Kampung Losong Haji Awang, hoping to dupe the police into believing that he was there for his prayers.
Police who carried out surveillance on the man from Bachok, Kelantan found that the man was an addict and the mastermind in the distribution of drugs in the area since last year.
“The modus operandi of the suspect is to park his car in front of the surau to fool the police and public into believing he was a pious man. The slick man tried to escape police and was involved in a scuffle when police tried to arrest him,” he told reporters here yesterday.
During the arrest police found 67 bottles of heroin weighing 311.6 grams, worth about RM106,000, in a Proton Perdana car that was parked at the surau.
Roslan said five minutes after his arrest, police also managed to detain six other suspects, including a woman, who were hiding in his house.
“When raiding his house we found 800 metamphetamine pills worth about RM24,000,” he said. — Bernama
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