KUCHING: A lorry driver and his attendant were detained by the Prevention and Enforcement Unit of the Forest Department for trying to smuggle 196 pieces of mangrove logs recently.

According to the department’s Corporate and Public Relations Unit yesterday, the two men were stopped during a roadblock manned by the department’s Prevention and Enforcement Unit at Jalan Matang, here.

For failing to produce any document related to the logs, they were arrested along with the logs, and were later brought to the Forest Department’s regional office for further investigation.