Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Aziz Ali (left) showing the handgun recovered. Besides him is Sepang Criminal Investigations Department chief Deputy Superintendent Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim.
PETALING JAYA: A suitcase filled with drugs and a handgun proved to be the undoing of two drug dealers.
Security officers at KLIA2 noticed the illegal items during a scan of one of their bags.
However, one of the suspects managed to evade police, while the other had already boarded his flight to Miri, Sarawak.
In the incident on Oct 8, police found a loaded handgun, a box of 40 9mm bullets, 1kg of what was suspected to be syabu and 493 Eramin 5 pills in the bag, Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Aziz Ali told a press conference Wednesday.
Police then conducted several raids, including one on a house in Taman Bukit Desa Cahaya in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 10.
Police are looking for Matthias Thian Yuk Wei to assist in investigations.
Three suspects, including the man who had fled the airport two days earlier, were arrested and 1kg of marijuana was seized.
Police are looking for Matthias Thian Yuk Wei, 32, from Sarawak, to help in the investigations.
In an unrelated case, ACP Abdul Aziz said police had successfully stopped a criminal gang operating from the Sepang area.
The gang, dubbed “Gang Lam Bok”, targeted construction sites for their supplies, mainly copper cables.
The gang, which has been operating since last year, is implicated in at least eight cases, including in Perak and Johor.
The latest heist was in Cyberjaya at 5am on Oct 2.
Police arrested 16 suspects, aged between 27 and 58. Most of them are foreigners from Indonesia and India.
ACP Abdul Aziz said police are also investigating if the buyers of the goods stolen by the gang were a part of the syndicate.
Source: http://miri.my/2016/10/26/airport-scan-shows-up-drugs-and-handgun-in-bag/