Searching for bombs, police find 'shabu-shabu'and ecstasy pills
Searching for bombs, police find 'shabu-shabu'and ecstasy pills
JAKARTA (JP): During a raid in search of bombs at a
boardinghouse, police found on Thursday shabu-shabu (crystal
menthaphetamine) and ecstasy pills instead.
Police arrested two men at the boardinghouse on Jl. Surkarjo
Wiryopranoto, Kebon Kelapa subdistrict for the possession of 525
grams of shabu-shabu and 1,407 ecstasy pills.
Gambir Police chief detective First. Insp. Bayu Dewantoro said
two policemen were sent to the three-story boardinghouse after
receiving a call from a tenant of the house who told police that
he had received a bomb threat.
The two policemen -- Krekot Police station chief Second. Adj.
Insp. Suyoto and Second. Brig. Rochmatul Amri from the Gambir
police station -- did not find any bombs in the boardinghouse.
They found instead a packet of shabu-shabu, six inex pills,
four instruments used for inhaling shabu-shabu, and a small
jerrycan of alcohol in one of the rooms rented by Richard, a
sailor, in the boardinghouse.
Richard confessed that he had been taking the drugs for five
years.
"Suyoto and Amri then became suspicious of another man in the
house holding a Panasonic cellular phone box," Bayu said.
When the man, identified later as Surja Alamsyah, was about to
escape, the policemen grab him and examined the box in his hand.
It contained five packets of shabu-shabu weighing 484 grams.
Police then escorted Surja to his house on Jl Industri I,
Gunung Sahari, Central Jakarta, and found another packet of
shabu-shabu weighing 40 grams and 1,407 ecstasy pills stored in a
Kymco VCD player.
Bayu said Surja confessed he received the cellular phone box
containing the drugs from a man called Suherman on Wednesday at
10 a.m.. Surja was to hand the box over to someone who would wait
for him in front of Prabu Motor, which is located next to the
boardinghouse, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., Bayu explained.
"Before meeting with this person, Surja decided to enter the
boardinghouse where he was caught by the police," Bayu added.
Surya told police he was paid Rp 250,000 by Suherman to
deliver the box. The police are trying to track down Suherman.
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