36 drug suspects nabbed in operation<\/p>\n
TANGERANG: Tangerang Police have arrested 36 suspected drug
\nusers and traffickers during a month-long operation from Aug. 10
\nto Sept. 12 in both Tangerang regency and Tangerang municipality.<\/p>\n
\"They will be charged under Law No. 22\/1997 on drugs and Law
\nNo. 5\/1995 on psychotropic substances,\" Tangerang Police
\nnarcotics division chief Comr. Suparno said on Monday.<\/p>\n
During the operation, the police seized 1.3 kilograms of
\nheroin, 5.1 grams of shabu-shabu (crystal metamphetamine), 100
\ngrams of marijuana and 237 lexotan pills.<\/p>\n
Suparno said 25 suspects were arrested for using and
\npossessing marijuana while 11 others were detained for drug
\ntrafficking.<\/p>\n
\"We received tip offs from people in the community. Then we
\nsent undercover police to pose as potential buyers during
\ntransactions with the suspects on the streets and at their
\nhomes,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He added that some suspects were arrested when the police held
\nraids on the streets in which drugs hidden in the suspects'
\nclothes and vehicles. -- JP<\/p>",
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