Alleged Nigerian drug dealer shot dead

Alleged Nigerian drug dealer shot dead

JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives shot dead an alleged
Nigerian heroin dealer after he resisted arrest and attempted to
snatch a policeman's gun in a hotel on Jl. Pramuka in Central
Jakarta on Monday.

The city police detective chief Col. Gories Mere told
reporters that the victim identified as March Adam Combelig was
shot three times in the leg and later died at the scene.

Gories, however, declined to give the cause of death, as the
three shoots to the leg, were unlikely to have caused the death.

"He was shot dead in room 927, while he was with his
Indonesian girlfriend," he said.

Gories explained that police found 750 grams of heroin with an
estimated street value of about Rp 350 million (US$31,818) in a
black leather bag.

"He tried to remove the evidence by swallowing the heroin,
part of which was hidden around his waist and blew some of the
substance in the officers' faces to cloud their vision", Gories
said.

He said that Combelig was on the police's most wanted list as
he was frequently arrested in police operations but was released
when there wasn't enough evidence.

"He has been caught at least three times in our routine
operations," he said, without giving details of the arrests.

Combelig reportedly checked into the hotel last week and on
early Monday, Debby, a resident of Jl. Utan Panjang in East
Jakarta, came to accompany him. The two met in the Tanamur
Discotheque two weeks earlier.

Debby said that she was unaware that her 'partner' was a
heroin dealer as she never saw Combelig consume any heroin or
drugs.

Debby said she was standing at the corner of the room, when
police suddenly rushed into the room to search Adam but he
resisted.

"They were later involved in a fight, with Combelig trying to
snatch a policeman's gun. Then I heard the shots," Debby said.

She admitted that she was shocked because she witnessed the
shooting and was bombarded with questions from the police
afterwards.

Police, however, let Debby go and said that she would be
summoned if police needed any further information.

Combelig's body was rushed to the Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital morgue in Central Jakarta for a post-mortem examination.
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