Tuesday August 22, 2006
Girl, 18, brains of drug ring
By R.S.N. MURALI
KUALA TERENGGANU: An 18-year-old girl and two men have been arrested for having in their possession more than 6,200 Ecstasy pills with a street value of about RM240,000.
The teenager, said to be the “brains” behind a drug distribution racket, and her accomplices were nabbed in separate raids in Ajil and Kuala Besut last week.
The girl was picked up at a house in Kampung Tok Dor in Ajil, where more than 2,000 pills were seized.
She was alone in the house when the police came on Friday.
The teenager later led police to another place in Kuala Besut, about 70km away, where the two men, aged 20 and 25, were arrested.
Terengganu narcotics chief Deputy Supt Amran Ramli said the three were arrested after almost a month of police surveillance.
The drugs were believed to be from a neighbouring country, he said, adding that the police had crippled a large drug peddling syndicate with the arrests.
DSP Amran said the three had been remanded for questioning under Section 39(B) of the Dangerous Drug Act 1952.
When the girl was 16, she was sent to a rehab centre to kick her party drug habit.
After she was discharged about a year later, she kept a low profile and gathered a few friends to help her run a drug distribution syndicate.
The police are looking for several more people to help in investigations.
It is learnt that the teenager was the only female in the group and the seizure was the biggest this year of designer drugs in Terengganu.
