PETALING JAYA: After having been arrested and fined several times for selling ketum water, a 30-year-old man landed in hot soup once again after being arrested for the fourth time when police raided a house in Taman Medan here on Wednesday.
Petaling Jaya district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohamad Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said the man, who has 10 previous records for crime and drug-related offences, had been arrested three times between 2017 to 2019.
"He was arrested in the house with four other male friends at about 6pm. They were caught while processing ketum water and during the raid, police also seized 92 plastic bottles filled with liquid suspected to be ketum water, each containing 1,500 milliliters, 10 plastic packages containing ketum leaves weighing 50 kilogrammes and some equipment used to process the ketum leaves," he added.
Fakhrudin said each bottle of ketum water was sold for RM15 and the ketum leaves were obtained from a state up north.
The five men who were arrested, he said, were between 23 and 37-years-old and do not have steady jobs.
They were remanded for four days until Feb 18 to facilitate investigations under Section 30(3) of the Poisons Act 1952. – Bernama