Sabah police report 14,238 arrests and 44.3 kg of ganja in ten months
Sabah police commissioner Datuk Jauteh Dikun said the state's narcotics investigators made 14,238 arrests between January and October 2026 and seized cannabis along with far larger quantities of methamphetamine, ecstasy and ketamine in major cases. Among the drugs in those cases were 44.3 kg of ganja, part of a haul police valued at RM287.14 million.
🇲🇾 Sabah Police Contingent headquarters, Kepayan, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah · Malaysia
Sabah police recorded 14,238 drug arrests between January and October 2026,
including 9,894 Malaysians and 4,344 foreigners, according to state police
commissioner Datuk Jauteh Dikun.[1]Jauteh gave the figures at the November
monthly assembly of the Sabah police contingent at Dataran Kawad in Kepayan,
Kota Kinabalu, on Thursday.[1]
The state’s narcotics investigation department put the drugs seized in its major
cases from January to October at an estimated RM287.14 million, cases in which
10 kg or more was seized.[1]The haul in those cases included 4,051.18 kg of
syabu (methamphetamine), 451.8 kg of ecstasy powder, 70.9 kg of ecstasy pills,
51.68 kg of ketamine and 44.3 kg of ganja, the Malay word for cannabis.[1]Thirty-three suspects, 26 men and seven women, were arrested in those
ten-kilogram-plus cases.[2]
The department opened 4,870 investigation papers and charged 4,431 of them in
court, a charge rate of 90.99 percent.[1]Jauteh said 12,171 of 13,385
investigation papers opened for case settlement were resolved, a rate of 90.93
percent.[1]Both rates passed the department’s key performance targets of 80
percent for charging and 65 percent for case settlement.[1]
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Sabah police commissioner Datuk Jauteh Dikun inspecting a guard of honour at the November 2026 Sabah contingent monthly assembly in Kepayan, where he gave the ten-month drug figures. No credit published.Photo details
Only 44.3 kg of ganja is reported, as a bare weight in the department's list of seized drugs; the article gives no case count, arrests or estimated value for the cannabis separately.
The RM287.14 million figure is police's estimate for all the drugs listed (methamphetamine, ecstasy powder and pills, ketamine and ganja), not for cannabis alone.
The 14,238 arrests, the 4,870 investigation papers and the 33 suspects in ten-kilogram-plus cases cover narcotics enforcement generally, not cannabis cases only; no cannabis-specific arrest count was published.
The article gives no separate date for the individual seizures; 5 November 2026, the Thursday of the assembly as reported, is used as the event date and 6 November is the publication date.
No breakdown is given of which ten-kilogram-plus cases involved ganja, or what happened to the 33 suspects beyond arrest and charging figures for the department as a whole.
The two accounts draw on the same police briefing and are not independent.
The page photo shows the police commissioner at the assembly rather than the drugs, and no direct image address was confirmed beyond the page markup, so only a link-style entry is given for it.
A motorcyclist escaped into bushes after his bike skidded on a muddy road in Rantau Panjang, leaving behind about 11 kg of suspected cannabis in two bags. Police valued the cannabis at RM34,100 and are investigating under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act.
Malaysian federal narcotics police seized 109.17 kg of cannabis valued at RM327,600 in a raid in Puchong Prima, Selangor, on 30 October 2026 and arrested one man. He was remanded until 12 November under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act, and police said he had been distributing cannabis since August.
Police recorded 77 drug-mule cases at Kuala Lumpur International Airport between January and 15 October 2026, arresting 93 people and seizing 2,526 kg of drugs worth RM202.76 million. Cannabis dominated the haul at 2,407 kg across 64 cases; Britons made up the largest group arrested.
Malaysian customs in Perlis seized 61.42 kg of ganja worth RM191,544 left in sacks at jetties around Kuala Perlis, including 36.42 kg found on a Pulau Batu Layang jetty platform on 19 October 2026. The second seizure, 25 kg on a disused platform on the Sungai Kuala Perlis, was made in August; no suspect was reported and both cases are under investigation for trafficking.
