Johor police chief Kamarul Zaman Mamat says 68 of the people detained tested positive for drugs. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, January 22, 2023.
POLICE arrested 78 individuals, including a foreign peddler nicknamed “doctor”, in a special operation at entertainment centres in the Batu Pahat and Kluang districts early today. Johor police chief Kamarul Zaman Mamat said the peddler, aged 31, was among eight foreign nationals and 70 locals, ages 16 to 68, arrested between 1am and 3 am.
He said 246 people were rounded up in the raids on three entertainment centres in Batu Pahat and Kluang, two of which were found to be operating without a valid licence. “Some 68 of them tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol , methamphetamine and ketamine,” he said, adding that the police also seized 3.43kg of ecstasy, 417g of ketamine, 1,370 ecstasy pills, and 300 Eramin 5 pills, estimated to be worth RM262,000.