Three Pakistanis arrested for heroin possession<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Three Pakistani men were arrested Tuesday for
\nallegedly possessing heroin and keeping it at their house in
\nCentral Jakarta, police said.<\/p>\n
Two were shot in the leg for resisting arrest, City Police
\nSpokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said yesterday. Police had raided
\nthe residence of two men, identified as Cms and Cmr, on Jl. Tanah
\nTinggi, Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
An accomplice, identified as La, was arrested yesterday
\nafternoon at his hideout on Jl. Tebet Timur Dalam, South Jakarta.
\nPolice had shot La in the left leg after he tried to attack
\nofficers.<\/p>\n
Aritonang said police arrested Cms and confiscated 0.5
\nkilograms of heroin worth around Rp 150 million (US$61,475).
\nOne gram is worth approximately Rp 300,000.<\/p>\n
Police also seized 20 Pakistan passports, which were believed
\nto be forgeries, as well as a fake immigration rubber stamp.<\/p>\n
Police suspected the three had been operating in the country
\nsince 1996.<\/p>\n
\"Police had to shoot Cmr because he tried to run away. He was
\nshot in the right leg and is now being treated at Kramat Djati
\nPolice Hospital in East Jakarta,\" Aritonang said.<\/p>\n
Cms and Cmr's arrest resulted from a tip-off police got from
\nneighbors, he said.<\/p>\n
\"Both denied possessing the heroin. They claimed it belonged
\nto a friend,\" Aritonang said.<\/p>\n
Police were still investigating the suspects' possible
\ninvolvement in a drug syndicate, he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, head of the immigration public relations
\ndepartment, Mursanudin A. Ghani, was quoted by the Antara news
\nagency as saying that his department would cooperate with police
\nto deport the two men.<\/p>\n
Ghani said the men could only be deported if there was a
\nrequest from City Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n
If the two were brought to trial, he said, the men would be
\ndeported after a sentence was delivered and served.<\/p>\n
According to the immigration department, Article 51 of 1976
\nregulation no. 9 allows the deportation of foreigners arrested in
\nIndonesia involved in drug dealing or abuse, either inside or
\noutside the country.<\/p>\n
Indonesia also has the authority to deport foreigners to their
\ncountry of origin, regardless of any extradition treaty between
\nIndonesia and their countries.<\/p>\n
The National Police Department has deported at least 11
\nforeigners for involvement in drug-related crimes since 1981.<\/p>\n
The latest case involved an American, Michael Gary Miller, who
\nwas deported in May. The immigration department said Miller was
\nsuspected of smuggling marijuana from Thailand to America for
\nmore than 10 years.<\/p>\n
Most of the other foreigners had been handed over to their
\nrespective countries' representatives at airports, including
\nNgurah Rai Airport in Bali where seven were extradited from.<\/p>\n
Extradited foreigners included four Danes who were involved in
\na heroin case in 1984, an Australian involved in narcotics in
\n1986, a French citizen in a heroin case in 1991, and four
\nAmericans who were separately involved in heroin and marijuana
\ncases in 1981, 1991, 1992 and 1997. (cst)<\/p>",
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