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)