Lorry driver arrested, 1.8kg heroin worth RM54k seized

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Lorry driver arrested, 1.8kg heroin worth RM54k seized
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TAIPING: Police have arrested a 39-year-old lorry driver and seized some 1.8kg worth of heroin at KM11 of Jalan Taiping-Bagan Serai, Kamunting, near here.

Taiping OCPD Asst Comm Osman Mamat said a team of policemen from its narcotics unit stopped his car during an operation on Tuesday at about 6.20pm.

"After introducing ourselves, we searched the vehicle and found a plastic bag at the front passenger seat. "We opened it and found a shoe box, and within it were four transparent plastic bags with lumps believed to be heroin," he said in a statement on Wednesday .ACP Osman said the man would be investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act, which carries the mandatory death sentence."He also confessed to selling the drugs in the district," he said, adding that the man would be remanded until Sept 30 to facilitate investigations.

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