Thai woman caught smuggling heroin<\/p>\n
TANGERANG (JP): Customs and excise officers managed to foil a
\ndrug trafficker's alleged attempt to smuggle 600 grams of heroin
\nworth more than Rp1 billion (US$117,647) from Thailand to
\nIndonesia through Soekarno-Hatta airport last Saturday morning,
\nofficials announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by chief of the airport customs and excise office
\nJusuf Indarto, Director General of Customs and Excise Permana
\nAgung told media that the suspect was a Thai woman, Nonthanam M.
\nSaichon, 21.<\/p>\n
Jusuf Indarto said that Saichon, who flew from Bangkok by Thai
\nAirways flight TG-433, arrived at the airport at 5:30 p.m. last
\nSaturday.<\/p>\n
\"Based on officers' intelligence observations and analysis of
\nall passengers' conduct and profiles, officers then became
\nsuspicious of the young woman,\" Jusuf said.<\/p>\n
He said that since no drug evidence had been found upon
\nsearching the suspect's luggage and clothes, suspicious officers
\nthen carefully searched the nervous suspect's underwear.<\/p>\n
Jusuf said as soon as the suspect was ordered to undress,
\nofficers found six plastic packets containing the white powdery
\ndrug attached to her underpants and bra.<\/p>\n
\"Preliminary test results using \"narcotest\", conducted by
\ncustoms and excise medical officers, confirmed that the packets
\nof white powder contained 600 grams of pure heroin,\" Jusuf
\nremarked, adding that the six packets reportedly had a street
\nvalue of more than Rp 1 billion (US$117,647).<\/p>\n
Permana added that the suspect is now in police detention at
\nthe national HQ for further investigation.<\/p>\n
According to Permana Agung, by allegedly smuggling heroin into
\nthe country, the suspect had violated article 82 of Anti-drugs
\nlaw No. 22\/1997. The Article carries a maximum death sentence
\nand a Rp1 billion fine.<\/p>\n
Tangerang district court has sentenced 13 drug traffickers to
\ndeath over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n
The district court is also scheduled on Tuesday to hand down
\nanother death penalty to African Namaona Denis, for whom the
\nprosecutor had demanded life imprisonment on Aug. 17, for
\nsmuggling 1 kilogram of heroin from Pakistan into the country in
\nApril.<\/p>\n
Tangerang prosecutors office also received last Friday the
\ndossiers from the National Police who had completed their
\ninvestigation into Edith Yunita Sianturi, 24, a resident of
\nDepok, West Java, arrested at the airport for smuggling 1
\nkilogram of heroin from Thailand early in June. (41)<\/p>",
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