Police arrest three drug dealers
Police arrest three drug dealers
JAKARTA (JP): Police have arrested three alleged drug dealers
from Aceh province in two separate raids here.
The deputy chief of city police detective unit, Lt. Col. Bakat
Purwanto, said the first two suspects, identified as M. Nasir, 27
and Zainuddin, 28, were picked up at Kalibata Mall, South
Jakarta, on Wednesday.
"The two were caught red-handed when doing a marijuana
transaction with a plainclothes officer at about 3 p.m.," Bakat
said.
"The undercover officer was showing Rp 15 million in cash as a
hook for the two suspects. When they took it and showed the
marijuana, we busted them."
Police confiscated five kilograms of dried marijuana wrapped
in newspaper and kept inside a blue bag.
The men, who said they were Aceh residents, claimed they
obtained the drug from a man named Muslim bin Munir, also an Aceh
resident who lived in Jagakarsa area, South Jakarta.
At about 7:30 p.m. on the same day police raided Muslim's
house. "We arrested Muslim with another five grams of marijuana.
He admitted that he brought the marijuana straight from Aceh by
land transportation."
The men have been detained at City Police Headquarters for
further investigation. (edt)
JAKARTA (JP): Police have arrested three alleged drug dealers
from Aceh province in two separate raids here.
The deputy chief of city police detective unit, Lt. Col. Bakat
Purwanto, said the first two suspects, identified as M. Nasir, 27
and Zainuddin, 28, were picked up at Kalibata Mall, South
Jakarta, on Wednesday.
"The two were caught red-handed when doing a marijuana
transaction with a plainclothes officer at about 3 p.m.," Bakat
said.
"The undercover officer was showing Rp 15 million in cash as a
hook for the two suspects. When they took it and showed the
marijuana, we busted them."
Police confiscated five kilograms of dried marijuana wrapped
in newspaper and kept inside a blue bag.
The men, who said they were Aceh residents, claimed they
obtained the drug from a man named Muslim bin Munir, also an Aceh
resident who lived in Jagakarsa area, South Jakarta.
At about 7:30 p.m. on the same day police raided Muslim's
house. "We arrested Muslim with another five grams of marijuana.
He admitted that he brought the marijuana straight from Aceh by
land transportation."
The men have been detained at City Police Headquarters for
further investigation. (edt)