JOHOR BAHRU, July 22 -- Police have dismantled a synthetic drug ring after arresting eight individuals, including a 16-year-old teenager, in a series of three raids across the city.

The operations, conducted on July 18, netted 50 plastic packets of suspected methamphetamine weighing 60.78kg, with a street value estimated at RM3.04 million.

Johor police chief Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad confirmed that the arrests were the result of intelligence gathered by the Johor Bahru South district police's Narcotics Criminal Investigation Division (NCID).

The suspects, aged between 16 and 78, include a foreign national.

"The first raid was carried out in a parking lot near a hotel in Johor Bahru, which led to the arrest of four local men and a foreign...