Prosecution seeks death in 'Boy from Brazil' drug case<\/p>\n
Multa Fidrus Tangerang<\/p>\n
Prosecutors demanded on Tuesday that Brazilian citizen, Marco
\nArcher Cardoso Moreira, 42, be sentenced to death by the
\nTangerang District Court for smuggling 13.4 kilograms of cocaine
\nthrough the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport last August.<\/p>\n
Beside the maximum penalty, prosecutors Adrizal and Eben
\nSilalahi also requested the court to order the defendant to pay
\nRp 300 million (US$33,333) in fines. According to the
\nprosecutors, the defendant was guilty of smuggling the drugs and
\nviolated Article 82 of Law No. 22\/1997 on drugs.<\/p>\n
\"If the defendant was successful in smuggling the drugs from
\nPeru into the country, we can't imagine how many young lives
\nwould have been destroyed,\" Adrizal said.<\/p>\n
The prosecutors said there were no mitigating factors.<\/p>\n
Moreira met with John Miller, who is still at large, at Lalu
\nRestaurant on Jl. Orberoi, Bali, last June. Miller gave him
\nUS$10,000 and asked him to fly to Dolphin Bungalow in Cikama,
\nPeru.<\/p>\n
Miller told the defendant that a man called Cino, also still
\nat large, would meet him and gave him plastic bags containing
\ncocaine. After concealing the cocaine in his paraglider frame,
\nMoreira then went to Trijillo in Peru by car and flew to Lima by
\nLam Peru Airlines. The defendant stayed for several days in
\nKoitos in Lima. He then carried the drugs to Sao Paolo and
\nboarded flight KLM 837 to Jakarta, arriving on Aug. 2, 2003.<\/p>\n
Airport security officers, who asked him to put his luggage
\nthrough the X-ray, became suspicious as one of his seven bags
\ncontained strange objects.<\/p>\n
Officers opened the bag but the defendant said that it only
\ncontained a paraglider frame. They then asked the defendant to
\nshow his customs declaration and passport.<\/p>\n
\"No problem,\" he replied while walking toward a trolley to get
\nthe documents. At the same time, two Garuda flights had arrived
\nand the incoming passengers crowded the terminal.<\/p>\n
The defendant then ran off, leaving his bags behind. Officers
\ntried to catch him but to no avail. They later opened his bags
\nand found the paraglider frame filled with 29 black plastic bags
\ncontaining white powder.<\/p>\n
A test confirmed that the white powder was cocaine, weighing
\n13.4 kilograms.<\/p>\n
National Police tracked down the defendant who was hiding out
\nin a house belonging to Ahmad Abdullah, a resident of Sumbawa
\nisland, West Nusa Tenggara, on Aug. 16. When the police asked him
\nto show some identification, the defendant said he had thrown
\naway his passport, but said his name was Marco Archer Cardoso
\nMoreira.<\/p>\n
Presiding judge Suprapto adjourned the trial until next
\nTuesday to hear the defendant's defense plea.<\/p>",
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