Cops arrest seven more students for drug pushing

PETALING JAYA: Seven more students were arrested by police in Subang Jaya for drug pushing as a task to snuff out narcotics-related crimes in the township intensifies.
The clean-up operation undertaken by a special task force of the Subang Jaya police narcotics crimes investigations department (NCID) also recovered more than 4kg of ganja worth about RM12,000 in two separate raids.
Subang Jaya police chief ACP Mohammad Azlin Sadari today said at about 3pm on Thursday, members of the district NCID trailed two men who pulled over by a road shoulder in SS14 to meet a third suspect.
He said the police team ambushed the suspects who are in their early 20's and recovered a bag containing 4kg of ganja slabs on checking their car.
He said two of the suspects are foreigners from an African country.
Mohammad Azlin said in a second raid at an apartment in SS12 at 11.30pm, three foreigners, all from African countries were detained at their rented house. He said a small amount of ganja was seized.
"All seven suspects who are aged between 21 and 25 are students of several private colleges in the Klang Valley. All tested positive for drug abuse and are in our custody for investigation under a week-long remand order." he said.
With latest arrests, almost 30 students have been nabbed by Subang Jaya police since late last month for drug related offences and robbery.
Investigators believe the high number of colleges in the township and the demand for drugs especially ganja among students had led to the spike in narcotic-related crimes.
Drug syndicates are also said to be luring students enticing them with the five to ten-fold profits they could make pushing drugs.
In a separate case today, actress Rozita Che Wan lost her RM200,000 Toyota Vellfire to thieves just an hour after she parked the car at a condominium in USJ Taipan here.
Mohammad Azlin said the 43-year-old actress had left her car at her parking lot at about 3am before heading to her house.
He said she found the car missing later in the morning.
He said a closed-circuit security camera recording (CCTV) showed two men escaping with the car by ramming past a security bar at the apartment's guard room at 4am.
Mohammad Azlin said efforts to trace the vehicle that bore the registration plate WWQ 93 and the thieves are ongoing.
Rozita had also taken the loss of her car to the social media urging netizens who know the whereabouts of the vehicle to contact the police.