Woman, three daughters take on police to prevent son's arrest for drugs

BESUT: A 53-year-old housewife and her three daughters turned aggressive at their family home in Felda Selasih here yesterday, when the police tried to arrest the son for suspected drug trafficking.
In the incident, one of the daughters bit the right hand of a policeman as he tried to place the 29-year-old man under custody.
Nevertheless, the team of policemen detained the suspected trafficker, and took the housewife and her daughters into custody for alleged obstruction of justice.
Also detained was the man's 22-year-old suspected accomplice.
Besut police chief, Supt Mohd Zamri Mohd Rowi said the policeman whose hand was bitten by one of the daughters sought treatment at the Besut Hospital.
He said about five hours before the arrest of the suspected trafficker, the man had given the police team the slip when a drug raid was mounted at about 2pm, at a place behind a house in Felda Selasih.
"During the raid, the police arrested the 22-year-old suspect while the 29-year-old escaped," he told the media here today.
Mohd Zamri said the police seized 270 psychotropic pills from the waist bag of the suspect, as well as seven transparent plastic bottles believed to contain heroin, a bag containing an identification card and a driving licence, and a small bottle of liquid suspected to be a drug, at the scene.
The police also seized three vehicles, namely an Isuzu pick-up truck, Honda Civic and Proton Wira, as well as two motorcycles, namely a Yamaha Lagenda and a Honda EX5, and RM600.
The vehicles and machines are believed to have been bought with proceeds from the sale of drugs. — Bernama