JOHOR BAHRU, Aug. 20 -- A drug trafficking syndicate, believed to be using houses in secure gated residences as a storage repository, was crippled after police raided and seized drugs worth RM7.93 million in three raids in Seri Alam near here recently.

The Seri Alam district police's Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) carried out the raid that led to the arrest of eight local men and one foreign woman, aged between 35 and 65, on August 12.

Johor deputy police chief Hoo Chuan Huat said the first raid was at a house in Masai where police arrested three men, before seizing 39.809 kilogrammes (kg) of ecstasy powder suspected to be MDMA, 4.91kg of ketamine and 13,400 Erimin 5 psychedelic pills weighing 3.85kg.

He said police...