Housewife arrested for drugs

Housewife arrested for drugs

INDONESIA: A housewife was arrested carrying 1,950 ecstasy pills
in her underwear at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in
Tangerang on Friday afternoon.

This was the first drug arrest at the airport since police
foiled an attempt by Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira to
smuggle 13.7 kilograms of cocaine into the country on Aug. 2.
Moreira is now in police custody after being arrested in West
Nusa Tenggara two weeks after he managed to escape arrest at the
airport.

The head of the airport police, Comr. Sri Suari Wahyudi, said
on Saturday the suspect Yuliana, 46, a resident of Jambi, was
arrested at about 5:30 p.m. as she tried to board a plane for
Palembang, South Sumatra.

A security guard became suspicious of Yuliana's actions, and
when she passed through an X-ray machine the ecstasy pills were
detected.

A quick search by the guard quickly lead to the ecstasy pills
hidden in the suspect's underwear. The guard detained Yuliana and
handed her over to the airport police for further questioning.

Suari refused to provide details on the status of the suspect.

Yuliana will be charged under Law No. 22/1997 on narcotics and
could face the death penalty if convicted. -- JP