BIA captain nabbed with 'shabu-shabu'

BIA captain nabbed with 'shabu-shabu'

JAKARTA (JP): An East Jakarta Police officer revealed on
Thursday that an army captain and five civilians were arrested
for drugs offenses in Kayuputih, Pulogadung district, on
Wednesday night.

"Capt. Rudy Hutajulu, an officer with the Indonesian Military
Intelligence Body (BIA), was arrested during a shabu-shabu
(crystal methamphetamine) party along with five other people,"
East Jakarta Police chief Sr. Supt. Hidayat Fabanyo said on the
sidelines of a ceremony initiating the operation of the National
Drugs Coordinating Agency (BKNN) in Cawang, East Jakarta.

Hidayat said the six people were arrested in a house located
in Kayuputih at 11:30 p.m.

The five civilians were identified as Gloria Susanti, 49,
Erwin, 42, Decki Irian Sorongan, 23, Rolly Alexander Polly, 40,
and Grace Mf Laan, 44.

Police confiscated one envelope containing marijuana, four
small packages of shabu-shabu and apparatus used to inhale the
drug from the house.

Hidayat said the five civilians would be tried under common
law.

"Meanwhile, the army officer will be sent to the city military
headquarters for further investigation," he said.

In a separate incident, South Jakarta Police arrested British
national Graham Somerville on Thursday at a house in the city
military command housing complex on Jl. Cenderawasih in Kebayoran
Lama, South Jakarta.

A police source said four precinct personnel raided the house
in the military complex around 3 p.m.

"After receiving a tip-off from our informant, we raided the
house," the police detective, who was involved in the raid, said.

He said about 10 people attempted to flee the house when the
raid began.

"Two of the people were arrested, while others managed to flee
the scene despite the police firing warning shots," he said,
adding that the police seized 70 packages of putaw (low grade
heroin).

The two people arrested were Somerville and Andy Mahdi.

The source added the police were now investigating the
ownership of the drugs.

Somerville, 29, initially told the investigating police
officer at the precinct he was the son of the political attache
at the British Embassy here.

However, Somerville, who spoke Bahasa Indonesia fluently,
withdrew his statement after the police officer asked whether he
really was the son of the political attache.

"My father is working with a management consultancy firm that
provides consulting services to the staff at the British
Embassy's political attache," Graham, a resident of Bukit Permai
housing complex in Cibubur, East Jakarta, told reporters at the
police precinct. (asa)