Man caught with drugs worth RM700,000


GEORGE TOWN: Police arrested a man carrying 10 packets of tea bags and uncovered RM700,000 worth of drugs stuffed inside them in an ambush at a supermarket in Jelutong here.

The drugs, believed to be 10.4kg of syabu, were found packed inside the tea packages. Also seized was a car.

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