Drug dealer shot dead by police

Drug dealer shot dead by police

JAKARTA: Police shot dead a drug distributor on Jl. Hayam
Wuruk in Central Jakarta on Sunday evening after the suspect
tried to escape police arrest.

"The suspect, Syarif Muhammad Jamal, 25, had long been a
police target in a drug trafficking case," city police detectives
chief of narcotics Adj. Sr. Comr. Carlo B. Tewu told The Jakarta
Post.

Police confiscated 2,000 ecstasy pills and 20 grams of shabu-
shabu (crystal methamphetamine) from the suspect.

Carlo said Jamal had eight dealers who helped him to
distribute the drugs. One of them, Sutejo, was seized in October
last year. --JP