GEORGE TOWN: Penang police uncovered a drug processing laboratory and seized various types of drugs worth RM940,000 in two separate raids in Jalan Burmah and Jalan Masjid Negeri here the other day.
State deputy police chief Datuk A. Thaiveegan said in the first raid conducted at an apartment in Jalan Masjid Negeri at 4.30pm, police detained two local men and two women, from China and Vietnam.
He said police found 481.8 grammes of ketamine; 170 Eramine-5 pills; 2,458.2 grammes of white powder believed to be drugs; 33.8 grammes of ecstasy powder; 3.7 grammes of marijuana and 2.5 grammes of heroin stashed there.
“Police conducted a follow-up raid at a two-storey house in Jalan Burmah at 7.30pm and detained a 37-year-old man from Padang Besar, Perlis, who had seven criminal records related to drugs and is believed to be the mastermind of the ring,” he told a press conference here today.
Thaiveegan said the premises in the second raid also served as a drug processing laboratory and that police seized equipment like microwave ovens, weighing machines, pestles, hammers, hair-dryers and grinding machines from it.
“We also seized 6,100 grammes of ecstasy powder; 2,760 grammes of white powder and 370 ecstasy pills,” he said, adding that the syndicate was believed to have been active for about a year.
