Man pleads guilty to drug charges
By Malai FadleyRizal

A local man was jailed for three years and five months yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of consuming and possessing controlled drugs and two charges of possessing utensils used for the consumption of controlled drugs before the Magistrates' Court.

Senior Magistrate Hj Abdullah Soefri heard from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Prosecuting Officer that Hj Dahlan Hj Sudin was arrested by NCB personnel near the Immigration Control Post at the vicinity of the Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah building in Bandar Seri Begawan on suspicion of drug related activities on July 5, 2002.

Furthermore the court heard that NCB personnel found crystalline substances kept in a clear plastic which was stored in a pink plastic container and they also found a modified apparatus in the container believed to be used to administer controlled drugs. All items were found on the defendant when body searched was conducted.

The defendant was then taken to his house where the he surrendered to NCB personnel another apparatus. The personnel found another apparatus in the defendant's bedroom. The seized items and the defendant were taken to the NCB headquarters and personnel took a urine sample of the defendant, which was sent to the Scientific Services Department (SSD) for analysis together with the seized items. The SSD found that Hj Dahlan's urine sample tested positive for a class A drug, Methylamphetamine, popularly known as Syabu.

Meanwhile, the crystalline substances were found to contain 0.0576 grammes of Syabu while all the apparatus were found to contain traces of the same controlled drug.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin