Kuala Lampur, Jan. 14 -- Just two weeks into the new year and police have already managed to make their first drug bust worth over a RM1 million, after seizing some 42 kilograms of methamphetamine during an operation along Jalan Gasing on Sunday.

The drugs, found in a Toyota Vellfire, were stashed into 40 seperate Chinese tea packets worth an estimated RM2.1 million.

Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader said four men - three local and one Thai national - were arrested during the 8.45pm operation with all but one testing positive for drugs.

"We suspect the suspects were transporting the drugs for a trafficking syndicate, and that they were trafficking in from one country to another.

"W...