KUANTAN, Sept 2 – Pahang police detained a 23-year-old youth and seized heroin weighing 2.2 kilogrammes in a Proton Waja car at Lorong Pasar Baru here on Sunday.

Pahang police chief Datuk Robiah Abdul Ghani said the suspect, from Klang, was detained at 9.45pm while sitting in the car in front of a Chinese medicine shop.

“On checking police found a white plastic bag containing the heroin hidden below the front passenger seat,” she told reporters here today.

She said the street value of the heroin was about RM170,000. – Bernama