Selangor Customs enforcement officers spotted an unregistered motorcycle with a suspicious rider in Jeli district, Kelantan, on 13 October 2026 and began tracking him.[1][2][3][4] The rider accelerated and fled when he realised officers were following, leading to a chase in which officers kept up but the suspect escaped through narrow roads.[1][2] While fleeing, the rider threw a green plastic package onto the roadside.[1][2]

Officers recovered the package and found 286 grams of suspected cannabis flower inside.[1][2][5][4] Customs estimated the 286 grams of suspected cannabis flower at RM22,880.[1][2][3][5] Officers seized the exhibit and sent it to the North Port customs office for investigation.[1][2]

Customs said the suspect appeared to have used the unregistered motorcycle deliberately to avoid detection and to make escape easier.[1][3][5] The case is being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which allows death or life imprisonment on conviction and at least 12 strokes of the cane if death is not imposed.[1][2] No arrest was reported at the scene and the investigation was still under way with no court outcome announced.[1]

Selangor Customs ran the Jeli motorcycle hunt under the operation name Shieldgate, separate from its courier-parcel operation in Sepang.[3] Customs said the Jeli cannabis and the ketamine seized in the separate Sepang operation were taken together to the North Port customs office for further investigation under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.[3]

Selangor Customs announced the Jeli seizure on 13 October 2026 together with a separate 44.501 kg ketamine seizure worth some RM2.22 million at a courier company’s mail centre near Sepang on 13 August, under Operation Mekong Dragon VII.[5]

The operation was run under the name Shieldgate.[4]