Syndicate hiding drugs in vehicles


Secret stash: Comm Ayob showing where the drugs were stored inside the toolbox compartment of a tow truck at the Johor police headquarters. — THOMAS YONG/The Star

JOHOR BARU: A drug syndicate has taken to storing narcotics inside compartments of vehicles to escape from being charged with drug possession.

“It is harder to pin them down because the owners of the vehicles can be different compared to seizing drugs from a house, ” Johor police chief Comm Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said.

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