{"id":81136,"date":"2020-06-29T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81136"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:23:06","slug":"rm2-08-mln-worth-of-drugs-seized-at-sandakan-airport-four-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81136","title":{"rendered":"RM2.08 mln worth of drugs seized at Sandakan Airport, four nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sabah-sandakan-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sabah-sandakan-drugs.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sabah-sandakan-drugs-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>SANDAKAN: Sabah Customs Deputy Director General Datuk Abdullah Jaapar (second, left) showing the packages of methamphetamine during a press conference at the Customs headquarters here. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SANDAKAN, June 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The\u00a0Customs Department\u00a0in\u00a0Sabah\u00a0confiscated\u00a050 kilogrammes (kg) of suspected\u00a0methamphetamine valued at RM2.08\u00a0million\u00a0and detained\u00a0four local men at Sandakan Airport last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabah Zone Customs chief&nbsp;assistant director Datuk Abdullah Jaapar&nbsp;said the suspects, aged between 19 and 23, were arrested upon arrival at Sandakan Airport from Kuala Lumpur via a commercial flight on June 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe drugs in transparent plastic packets wrapped in bath towels were found in their respective luggages during Operation \u2018Ice Break\u2019\u00a0which was launched nationwide on June 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe suspects&nbsp;have been detained under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952,\u201d he said in a press conference here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day (June 23), the Sabah Customs seized a package containing about 3kg of suspected methamphetamine with an estimated value of RM150,000 which was declared as &#8216;tudung\u2019 at the Mas Kargo, Kota Kinabalu International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said a&nbsp;46-year-old local man and three foreigners comprising two women and a man,&nbsp;aged 19, 23 and 45 respectively, were detained to facilitate investigation under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdullah said in the first six months of this year, Sabah Customs had seized drugs&nbsp;with an estimated value of RM3.5 million and cigarettes and tax-free liquors worth RM5.3 million and RM3.4 million respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAKAN, June 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The\u00a0Customs Department\u00a0in\u00a0Sabah\u00a0confiscated\u00a050 kilogrammes (kg) of suspected\u00a0methamphetamine valued at RM2.08\u00a0million\u00a0and detained\u00a0four local men at Sandakan Airport last week.\u00a0 Sabah Zone Customs chief&nbsp;assistant director Datuk Abdullah Jaapar&nbsp;said the suspects, aged between 19 and 23, were arrested upon arrival at Sandakan Airport from Kuala Lumpur via a commercial flight on June 23. \u201cThe drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":81137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}