Nepalese nabbed for heroin in condoms

Nepalese nabbed for heroin in condoms

JAKARTA (JP): The Soekarno-Hatta international airport
authorities have arrested a 30-year-old Nepalese with three
heroin filled condoms in his stomach.

The suspect, identified only as JY, is now being treated at
the Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta.

Pos Kota quoted a police officer as saying yesterday that
airport authorities arrested the Nepalese on Saturday shortly
after he disembarked from a plane.

The daily said the airport authorities were suspicious of the
man, who reportedly staggered in a corridor before toppling over
in a drugged state near the departure hall's exit.

The daily gave no details of the suspect's point of departure
nor the name of the airline he flew.

The daily said the suspect had probably realized the
authorities were waiting for him and he decided to immediately
swallow the three condoms, all of which were loaded with heroin
capsules, in an attempt to avoid detection. But one of the
condoms split in his stomach.

"He may have swallowed the capsules soon after he saw us," an
officer said.

An X-ray picture taken at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital, the first hospital the Nepalese was taken to, showed a
total of 103 capsules filled with heroin in the suspect's
stomach. (bsr)