Both cases have been classified as trafficking under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the mandatory death sentence
The man, in his 30s, was waiting for his customer to collect the 1.46kg of No. 4 heroin when a narcotics team raided his room after a tip-off at 3pm on Thursday.
The four slabs of high-grade heroin, which is 99.9% pure, could be processed into No. 3 heroin which is the type taken by drug addicts. Each kilogram could be processed into 10 times the original amount.
State deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm I Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid said the man, an international drug trafficking syndicate member, had no record of any previous arrests.
"We are now looking for his accomplices. He has since been remanded pending questioning into the source of the heroin.
"We also seized his car, a branded wristwatch, an assortment of jewellery and cash amounting to over RM70,000 obtained from the sales of drugs," he told a press conference on Monday.
Also present at the conference were state Narcotics Department chief Supt R.S.S. Batumalai and his deputy DSP Ismail Idris.
On Sunday, a local man and a Vietnamese woman, also in their 30s, were nabbed with an assortment of drugs worth RM85,000 at another hotel in Penang Road.
SAC Salleh said 2.1kg of ketamine, 835 amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) pills such as Erimin 5 and Yaba, and small amounts of heroin and syabu were recovered in their room.Police believe they have crippled an international drug syndicate with the arrest of a man and seizure of heroin weighing 1.46kg, valued at about RM1 million, during a raid here on Thursday.
Penang deputy police chief Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid said in the 3pm raid at a hotel along Jalan Penang here, a combined team from the Federal Police and Penang Narcotics departments detained a man and seized the third grade heroin.
"The heroin can fetch a market price of almost a million Ringgit after processing. It was hidden in a toy box," he told reporters here today.
The man, in his 30s, is believed to be a member of an international drug syndicate and was using the hotel as his distribution base.
He was said to be was waiting for customers from a neighbouring country when police spoiled the party.
Police also seized some money, a car and jewellery altogether worth RM70,117.84. The man has been remanded until Jan 31. The case is being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
The four slabs of high-grade heroin, which is 99.9% pure, could be processed into No. 3 heroin which is the type taken by drug addicts. Each kilogram could be processed into 10 times the original amount.
State deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm I Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid said the man, an international drug trafficking syndicate member, had no record of any previous arrests.
"We are now looking for his accomplices. He has since been remanded pending questioning into the source of the heroin.
"We also seized his car, a branded wristwatch, an assortment of jewellery and cash amounting to over RM70,000 obtained from the sales of drugs," he told a press conference on Monday.
Also present at the conference were state Narcotics Department chief Supt R.S.S. Batumalai and his deputy DSP Ismail Idris.
On Sunday, a local man and a Vietnamese woman, also in their 30s, were nabbed with an assortment of drugs worth RM85,000 at another hotel in Penang Road.
SAC Salleh said 2.1kg of ketamine, 835 amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) pills such as Erimin 5 and Yaba, and small amounts of heroin and syabu were recovered in their room.Police believe they have crippled an international drug syndicate with the arrest of a man and seizure of heroin weighing 1.46kg, valued at about RM1 million, during a raid here on Thursday.
Penang deputy police chief Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid said in the 3pm raid at a hotel along Jalan Penang here, a combined team from the Federal Police and Penang Narcotics departments detained a man and seized the third grade heroin.
"The heroin can fetch a market price of almost a million Ringgit after processing. It was hidden in a toy box," he told reporters here today.
The man, in his 30s, is believed to be a member of an international drug syndicate and was using the hotel as his distribution base.
He was said to be was waiting for customers from a neighbouring country when police spoiled the party.
Police also seized some money, a car and jewellery altogether worth RM70,117.84. The man has been remanded until Jan 31. The case is being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
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