MIRI: Police here arrested a local woman who works as a barber suspected of being involved in drug abuse on Thursday.
According to Miri Police chief ACP Khoo Leng Huat, the suspect identified as Ho Chin Voon, 24, was arrested by a police team from the Narcotics team here at 10.30 am in a room on the top floor of a house in Lorong 7, Jalan Jee Foh, Krokop.
ACP Khoo Leng Huat said that further examination by the police had discovered a section of straw tubes containing blue crystal chunks suspected to be Ketamine weighing 1.25 grammes.
The initial screening of urine is also positive of Ketamine, he said.
The case is being investigated under Section 12 (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and Section 15 (1) (a) of the same Act.