Aug. 17 drug raids net five suspects
Aug. 17 drug raids net five suspects
Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta
While Jakartans were celebrating Independence Day on Aug. 17,
narcotics detectives apprehended five people suspected of being
involved in separate drug rings, a police officer revealed on
Wednesday.
City Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Tjiptono said that the police
had also seized some 400 ecstasy pills, crystal metamphetamine
popularly known as shabu-shabu and marijuana.
"We suspect that they are part of quite large drug syndicates,
considering the amount of the drugs in their possession
confiscated as evidence," he remarked.
Based on information from other suspects detained earlier, the
first suspect, identified as Lusiana, was arrested at her
boarding house in Central Jakarta at 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The
police found 200 ecstasy pills and 100 grams of shabu-shabu in
her possession.
Hours later at 7:30 a.m., a team of narcotics detectives
caught suspect Robin Wijaya on Jl. Gondangdia near Hero
supermarket in Central Jakarta. Police found 203 ecstasy pills on
Robin.
From Robin, police got information on another dealer who used
to run a drug operation on Jl. Keutamaan, in West Jakarta. Police
immediately went to the place, but the suspect had fled the spot.
Separately at about the same time, another team of narcotics
detectives arrested George Setyawan at a room on the 21st floor
of Puri Casablanca Apartments in Tebet, South Jakarta. The police
found four grams of shabu-shabu on him.
Last week police arrested two Malaysians staying on the same
floor of the apartment block.
The arrest on Tuesday was made based on a tip-off from other
apartment tenants.
Later at 3 p.m., one of the teams arrested Nur Alam Tayib,
while he was standing outside Ratu Ayu bar on Jl. Tubagus Angke,
West Jakarta. The police confiscated a 150-gram package of shabu-
shabu from him.
The four are currently detained at the Jakarta Police lockup
for narcotics suspects.
Tjiptono added that on the same day the South Jakarta Police
apprehended Kadir near a photography equipment shop on Jl. Raya
Ragunan in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta. He was reportedly
carrying a plastic bag containing 2.5 kilograms of marijuana.
Kadir is now being detained at the South Jakarta Police
Station.