Wed, 23 Nov 1994

Man stole drug from army

BANDUNG, West Java (JP): An 18 year old man is on trial for stealing morphine from an army warehouse.

Prosecutor Djuharia Anwar said in his indictment that JRS has stolen 455 ampules of HCL morphine, 224 ampules of Opial and 55 ampules of Decodid injection from the army's drug warehouse on Jl. Tongkeng, Bandung, on Aug. 19. He then sold the stolen morphine to some morphine addicts in the city, she said.

Djuharia said the police arrested JRS when he was lying on a street drunk. The police found an ampule of morphine in his pocket.(imn)