Teacher among 17 held for fire cracker offences

JOHOR BARU  <KUALA LUMPUR

 A primary school teacher was among
17 individuals arrested in a police
operation in the month of Ramadan
against the sale ,possession and firing
of crackers,police said Wednesday,

The teacher ,in his 30s  was held at about
noon on July in the of Gempur Khas "
operatin when selling fire crackers at
the Majidee night market,said Johor
Baru Selatan Police chief ACP Sulaiman
Salleh,

The 16 other people and unemployed
individuals he told a news  conference.

He said the seized fire crackers and fire
workers were estimated to cost RM10,000.

Sulaiman also said that during the period
the police conducted 146 raid on enterain-
ment houses massage parlours vicdens,drug
addict haunts and motocycle workshop,
resulting in the arrest of 615 people,

"Some 475 of them were Malaysians and
the 140 others foreign nationals,
he said,

BERNAMA