Four suspected drug dealers arrested
Four suspected drug dealers arrested
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Jakarta Police announced on Tuesday they had arrested four
suspected drug dealers and confiscated 4.2 kilograms of shabu-
shabu (crystal methamphetamine), a liter of liquid
methamphetamine, 50 grams of heroin and six kilograms of
marijuana.
"The suspects were arrested over the last two weeks. They are
part of three different drug rings," the Jakarta Police's top
drug cop, Adj. Sr. Comr. Anjan P. Putra, said.
The arrests bring the number of major drug busts in the
capital this year up to 10.
The first two suspects -- Ong Ye An Tey, 35, alias Yanti, and
Fatimah Wijaya, 34, alias Baby -- were arrested on Jl. Raya Pluit
in North Jakarta.
Police were tipped off that the two suspects were headed to
Muara Angke, North Jakarta, to make a drug sale.
Police arrested and interrogated the pair before raiding
Yanti's house in the Taman Duta Mas housing complex in West
Jakarta. There they found six bags of shabu-shabu weighing a
total of 3.2 kilograms and methamphetamine.
Separately, police arrested Affandi, 20, at the Kemiri market
in Depok, south of Jakarta.
Affandi was nabbed by police officers posing as drug buyers.
They seized three kilograms of marijuana from the suspect.
Police then searched Affandi's house in Jagakarsa, South
Jakarta, where they found three more kilograms of marijuana.
Another drug suspect, Martin Anderson, alias Belo, 39, a
Ghanese national, was arrested on Jl. Boulevard Raya in Kelapa
Gading, North Jakarta. Police confiscated 50 grams of heroin from
the suspect.
"We had to shoot the suspect in his leg when he punched and
choked a police detective when we attempted to arrest him," Anjan
said.
He said police were searching for two more suspected drug
dealers. The suspects were identified as Tony, a Nigerian, who
allegedly sold heroin to Belo, and Iwan who allegedly sold
marijuana to Affandi.
There have been 1,012 drug-related offenses from January to
June this year. Last year, the number of such offenses soared by
44 percent to 2,642 from 1,831 in 2001.
At least 21 drug traffickers have been sentenced to death by
the courts since January 2000, but none of have been executed.
On Monday, South Jakarta Police shot dead three suspected drug
traffickers, Wily Wira, 44, Akwan, 40, and Cheong Hoi Eng, 44, a
citizen of the People's Republic of China.
Police seized 2.3 kilograms of shabu-shabu from three
apartments rented by the suspects. Officers also seized 11,000
ecstasy pills from a fourth apartment rented by the suspects.