Fri, 20 May 2005

Police nab croupier and drug dealers

YOGYAKARTA: Yogyakarta police arrested on Thursday a croupier and three drug dealers, confiscating from them two kilograms of hashish, 485 ecstasy pills and 140 grams of amphetamine.

The police had previously arrested alleged drug dealer Muhammad Rizal, 39, and then were able to bring in three other people later that the same day, according to chief of police detectives at Yogyakarta municipal police Comr. Guntur Hendarsyah.

Hidayat, another drug dealer suspect, only admitted that he received the illicit drugs from "somebody in Jakarta". -- JP