BUKIT MERTAJAM: Around 50 people, including a drug dealer, were rounded up in a two-day operations in the Seberang Perai Tengah district which ended yesterday.
District police chief Assistant Commissioner Rusli Mohd Noor said the men, aged between 18 and 61, were detained at several locations in Bukit Mertajam, Seberang Jaya, Alma and Penanti. He said the drug dealer, in his 30s, is believed to have been distributing a wide array of drugs at the locations for at least two months.
Rusli said police had seized an undisclosed quantity of heroin, ganja and syabu. He said of those detained, 39 men had past criminal records including drug-related cases. Of the 50 men, Rusli said 37 were labourers, adding that four of them were wanted in connection with several robbery, house break-in and drug-related cases.
