High school graduates nabbed for selling heroin

JAKARTA (JP): Two fresh high school graduates were arrested for illegally possessing and selling heroin to schoolmates, police said.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said yesterday two male students, identified as Y and H, were arrested Thursday night near their school on Jl. Panglima Polim, South Jakarta.

"The arrest was based on a report by a former classmate of the students'," Aritonang said.

Classmate Mes, who failed his final examinations, reported Y and H for their alleged drug-dealing at school.

Mes' father told journalists his son had reported Y and H to the police because he envied Y and H for passing their exams.

"My son is smart and worked hard at school, while his two friends often skipped classes. Not to mention their drug dealing activities," Mes' father said.

Police then set up a transaction with the two students by using Mes as a bait.

Y and H were arrested while giving Mes 0.5 grams of heroin he had bought with Rp 125,000 (US$51) provided by police.

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Police were still tracing other people involved in drug- dealing at the school.

Aritonang said police also arrested a female drug pusher over the weekend for illegally possessing and dealing in Ecstasy.

Aritonang said police had been looking for Monica, 21, for her involvement in a separate drug-dealing case.

Monica was arrested early Saturday at the Domino discotheque on Jl. Batu Tulis, West Jakarta. Twenty-one Ecstasy pills and Rp 500,000 were confiscated from her.

Four other people were arrested for possessing putauw (a heroin substitute) and cocaine, Ecstasy pills and marijuana cigarettes. The drugs were confiscated during police raids on four entertainment spots in South Jakarta, early Saturday.

Aritonang said three people, identified as Al, 28, Ah, 29, and Ya, 27, were arrested at the Poster cafe on Jl. Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta, for possessing Ecstasy pills and marijuana.

The other person, identified as MJ, 24, was arrested at the Asmat cafe also on Jl. Gatot Subroto. Police seized three Ecstasy pills from MJ who was an employee at the cafe.

At the Ebony discotheque on Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, police seized 36 small packs of putauw hidden in the toilet, two small packs of cocaine, Ecstasy pills and 10 marijuana cigarettes scattered on the floor.

Nine Ecstasy pills were seized during the raid on the B1 discotheque also on Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said. (cst)