Police nab 11 involved in wild parties during MCO

BUKIT MERTAJAM: The police nabbed 11 individuals including three women on suspicion of being involved in two wild parties featuring drugs and flouting the Movement Control Order (MCO) in a raid here, early yesterday.

Seberang Perai Tengah (SPT) district police chief ACP Shafee Abd Samad said during the 2.20 am raid, the 11 were engrossed in entertaining themselves and consuming drugs in two rooms at a hotel in Jalan Machang Bubok.

‘’Police nabbed four men and a woman in a raid on the first room at the hotel and seized ketamin and ecstacy pills while six more were detained in the second room,’’ he said in a statement yesterday.

He said all the partygoers, aged 20 to 40, were believed to have rented the rooms at the hotel to entertain themselves and consume drugs during the MCO to avoid being detected by the authorities.

Ten of the individuals detained tested positive for drugs and were held for further investigations, while all of them were compounded RM1,000 for flouting the MCO.

-- BERNAMA