IPOH, Feb. 10 -- The Perak Forestry Department arrested one suspected timber thief and confiscated various species of timber that were being transported via a lorry in Kuala Kangsar.

The Forestry Department in a statement said that the suspect was arrested yesterday in a special operation called 'Ops Thaipusam'.

"After receiving information from the public in cases of harvesting forest products illegally, a group of 11 officers from the Kuala Kangsar District Forestry Department together with three police officers from the Kuala Kangsar police district office carried out the operation.

"The suspect was transporting 16 logs of timber of various species illegally," the statement read.

The department said that the timber together with th...