KUALA LUMPUR- Police arrested two people for drug possession after one of them surrendered the narcotics voluntarily during a routine search yesterday.

Cheras police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Ghani Mohamad Ji said a team from the district police headquarters stopped the two suspects, aged 20 and 19, at about 12.35 am at Jalan Cheras.

Both unemployed suspects were searched before one of them took out a package wrapped in newspaper that was kept in a plastic bag and gave it to the officer conducting the search, Abdul Ghani said in the package they found 400 Erimin 5 pills in aluminium foil worth RM2,400.

Erimin 5 is among the brand names of Nimetazepam, a sedative that is misused as an alternative to Ecstasy.

"The suspect who surrendered the drugs confessed to buying it from a 23-year-old man in Sri Sabah Apartment, Cheras, for RM600 per foil," he said.

Initial investigations showed both suspects had previous convictions for drug offences although both tested negative for drugs.

Both men have been remanded until Sunday.

Source- The Malay Mail