Businessman nabbed on drug charges

Businessman nabbed on drug charges

JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives arrested on Wednesday
businessman Suryono Jusuf, alias Empek, for possession of more
than one kilogram of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine), an
officer said on Thursday.

Supt. Abdullah HS, City Police narcotics detective chief, said
that besides shabu-shabu, police detectives also confiscated from
the 39-year old businessman packages of marijuana and ecstasy
pills.

"City Police detectives seized from the suspect 1,189 grams of
shabu-shabu, which were packed in 22 packages; two packages of
marijuana with 25 grams each; six pink ecstasy pills and 23 brown
ecstasy pills," Abdullah told reporters at City Police
Headquarters.

He said the City Police detectives arrested Suryono at 7:30
p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a tip off from the public.

The officer said detectives initially seized from him two
grams of shabu-shabu at his house on Jl. Kebon Jeruk in South
Jakarta on Wednesday.

After interrogating the suspect, the police learned that
Suryono owned a large amount of drugs kept in his other house on
Jl. Lautze in Central Jakarta, he said.

"We developed the investigation and finally revealed that he
kept a large amount of drugs in his house in Central Jakarta,"
Abdullah said.

The suspect's house was also used as a beauty parlor, with the
name Faulie Beauty Parlor.

The detectives arrested the businessman and seized the drugs
on Thursday, he said.

Abdullah said the suspect was then tipped as a drug
trafficker.

"The suspect is charged with trafficking drugs, since he was
arrested of possessing more than a kilogram of shabu-shabu," he
said, while adding that it was impossible for him to consume the
drugs himself.

By trafficking the drugs, the suspect will be charged with the
violation of Article 60 of the 1997 Law on Psychotropic
Substances, which caries a maximum punishment of 15 years in jail
and a fine of Rp 200 million (US$22,471). (asa)