GEORGE TOWN: A 36-year-old jobless man has been secretly cooking drugs in his parents’ three-storey detached house in Bukit Gambir near here for the past six months without their knowledge.
His parents, both 68, who stayed on the first floor, were apparently unaware of what their son had been up to in his second-floor room until a police narcotics team raided their house at 1am yesterday.
The raiding party unearthed a drug processing laboratory in his bedroom where they seized drugs worth RM291,750. The drugs comprised 355 Ecstasy pills, 1.36kg of Ecstasy powder, 700gm of WY powder, 200gm of drug base and 31gm of syabu.
Penang Narcotics CID chief Supt Guan Beng Kang said investigations were under way to determine the suspect’s distribution links.
“Based on the amount of drugs seized, we believe that it is mainly for local distribution,” he told a press conference at the state police headquarters in Penang Road here yesterday.
He said the suspect, who is a widower, was tested positive for drugs.
Supt Guan said he was currently under remand until July 14 to assist in investigations under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for drug trafficking which carries the mandatory death penalty.
