KOTA KINABALU — Some 3,000 eggs of endangered turtles were seized by a police border patrol from a boatman who was trying to slip into Sandakan waters on Sabah’s east coast.
Sandakan General Operations Force (GOF) Battalion 15 commander Supt Toipi Lamat said the 31-year-old suspect was arrested after his boat was intercepted in the waters off Nunuyan Darat at about 8:30 pm on Saturday.
He said they believed the suspect tried to slip in during the period for terawih prayers as he thought security forces would not be out on patrol.
He added that a GOF Tiger Platoon team led by Insp Mohammad Halil Husairy Hussain was on patrol under Ops Benteng in the area when they spotted a …
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