Nigerian shot dead in police escape

Nigerian shot dead in police escape

JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives shot dead a Nigerian man
who was allegedly dealing drugs at his residence in Cempaka Mas
Apartments on Jl. Letjen Suprapto, Central Jakarta on Friday.

Detective chief for narcotics Adj. Comr. Mangantas Tambunan
said 30-year-old Johnson, who was under police surveillance for
three months, was shot for trying to escape.

Tambunan said that after questioning some of Johnson's
accomplices who were earlier arrested, several undercover city
police detectives went to the apartment and ordered 100 grams of
heroin from the suspect.

"As soon as the suspect produced the heroin, the officers
proceeded to arrest him. He resisted and attempted to escape," he
told The Jakarta Post by phone.

He said Johnson was shot in the back and died at the
apartment. The body was sent to the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital
morgue.

Police seized some 1,000 grams of heroin which were to be
circulated throughout the capital, Tambunan said. He said the
suspect was a member of an international drug syndicate.(01)