PASIR MAS: Police have arrested a married couple and seized heroin base and psychotropic pills worth RM2.09mil from a house at Jalan Pasir Mas-Tanah Merah here.

       Kelantan police chief Datuk Shafien Mamat said the seizure was made following the arrest of a lorry driver by a team from the Bukit Aman Narcotic Criminal Investigation Department and the Pasir Mas narcotics team here at about 1.20pm on Sunday.

       “No contraband was found on the man, 27, who then led the police to his house nearby. His Thai wife, 23, was at home. While in the house, the man showed the police a package containing heroin base weighing 13.295kg worth RM1.23mil.

       “The police also found 86,000 psychotropic pills worth RM860,000, and impounded a car and a motorcycle,” he told media at the Pasir Mas district police headquarters yesterday.

       He said both the suspects were in remand for seven days since Sunday for suspicion of drug trafficking and face the death sentence if found guilty. – Bernama