KOTA BARU: Kelantan police have crippled a drug syndicate that used a telecommunications shop in Tanah Merah as a distribution hub, seizing 90kg of cannabis.

Kelantan police chief Datuk Mohd Yusoff Mamat said police had conducted intelligence operations for over a month to track down the suspect.

He said at 3.30pm on Sunday, police trailed a Honda FD driven by the 27-year-old local suspect. Upon realising he was being followed, the suspect sped off before crashing by the roadside in Kampung Batu 10, Batang Merbau, Tanah Merah.

"Personnel from the Tanah Merah district police headquarters Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department, in cooperation with the Tanah Merah police station, arrested the suspect and found 14 yaba pills under the driver's dashboard.