SANDAKAN: Two men, including a civil servant, were arrested by police for having syabu estimated to be worth RM10,000 in Kinabatangan near here recently.
Kinabatangan Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) officers stopped the duo as they were travelling in a car. It is believed they were on their way from Lahad Datu to deliver the drugs, weighing 32gm, to buyers here and nearby Telupid and Beluran.
Kinabatangan police chief Dept Supt Jaini Abdul Kadir said the 28-year-old civil servant is attached to a state government agency in Lahad Datu while his accomplice is a 40-year-old Indonesian.
The police team led by Kinabatangan NCID chief Inspector Nicodemus Branking found six packets of the suspected drugs inside an envelope in the front pocket of the jeans worn by the Indonesian.
Seized: Jaini (centre) showing the seized items during the press conference. “The substance will be sent to the Chemistry Department for analysis. The team also seized electronic weighing equipment, RM48 and three mobile phones from the suspects,” DSP Jaini added.
The suspects are being probed under Section 39A(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which provides for a maximum jail term of life imprisonment and minimum 10 strokes of the cane on conviction.
In another case, a jobless man was arrested in front of a junction to an oil palm plantation here for having 9gm of syabu.
The man, a 33-year-old local, was found holding the drugs in his hand when police detained him, DSP Jaini said.
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