Former athlete netted for drug sale<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A former national billiards athlete was arrested
\nyesterday on charges of having sold Ecstasy pills at a
\ndiscotheque at Central Hotel in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira
\nsaid the man, identified as Rud, 38, was apprehended by the
\npolice as he came out of the hotel on Jl. Pramuka.<\/p>\n
\"We seized 25 Ecstasy pills, which were the pink and butterfly
\ntypes, behind the seat of his motorcycle,\" Abubakar said.<\/p>\n
He said the police also seized Rp 900,000 (US$382.97) from
\nRud, formerly a national billiards athlete.<\/p>\n
During preliminary interrogation, Rud admitted to becoming an
\nEcstasy retailer in May this year, Abubakar said.<\/p>\n
The father of five children bought the Ecstasy pills in the
\nMangga Besar area in West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
He bought them for Rp 40,000 each and sold them for Rp 50,000
\neach.<\/p>\n
Rud, a resident of Jl. Ikan Mas, Pulo Gadung district in East
\nJakarta, said he is jobless.<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta police arrested a man on July 29 for
\nallegedly possessing and selling Ecstasy pills at a bowling alley
\nat the Blok M shopping center in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Puspo Irianto was arrested with 570 Ecstasy pills worth Rp 30
\nmillion in his sports bag.<\/p>\n
On July 26, Soekarno-Hatta Airport's customs and excise
\nofficers arrested a man for smuggling 13,000 Ecstasy pills worth
\nmore than Rp 1.3 billion.<\/p>\n
The man smuggled the pills from Rotterdam, the Netherlands via
\nFrankfurt, Germany on a Lufthansa airliner.<\/p>\n
The smuggling was the sixth in the past five months, mostly
\noriginating from Rotterdam.<\/p>\n
Ecstasy pills have prompted crackdowns. Police made several
\ncrackdowns at discotheques and nightspots in the city.<\/p>\n
The crackdowns have been criticized as violations of privacy.<\/p>\n
At least two women in Jakarta have died from drug overdoses.
\nThe forensic unit at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital believed that
\nthe women, who died in separate incidents, swallowed some Ecstasy
\npills. (jun)<\/p>",
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