The Jakarta
Police drug division arrested three people suspected of being part of an
international drug network.
“Two of the
suspects, YN alias NR and SG alias AS, are Indonesian citizens, while the other
one, KRT alias AND, is a Malaysian citizen,” drug division director Sr. Comr.
Nugroho Aji Wijayanto said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com on Thursday.
YN and KRT
were arrested on Monday evening at the City Lofts apartments in Central
Jakarta, while SG was arrested at midday on Monday at the Sahid apartments,
also in Central Jakarta.
Nugroho
said the police had been investigating and trailing the suspects for two months
before the arrests. “They are part of an old international drug network,” he
said
The police
confiscated 8 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as
shabu-shabu. One of the packages contained 1 ounce of high quality crystal meth
known as “blue ice”, worth around Rp 3 billion (US$351,000).
“We
confiscated 3 kilograms from the first crime scene [City Lofts] and the
remaining 5 kilograms were found at the second crime scene [Sahid apartments],”
Nugroho said.
The police
also seized 10 ecstasy tablets, four cellular phones, three scales, one
Malaysian passport and 570 Malaysian Ringgit ($190), 5 Yuan (75 cents) and
17,000 Vietnamese Dong (85 cents). The evidence is worth Rp 15 billion in
total.
All the
suspects were charged under the Narcotics Law, which carries a maximum penalty
of 20 years in prison.
The police
investigation is ongoing, as two other suspects, AF and AH, both Malaysian
citizens, remain at large.
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