Six arrested for possessing and dealing drugs
Six arrested for possessing and dealing drugs
JAKARTA (JP): City anti-narcotics detectives have arrested two
university students for possessing heroin and four alleged
marijuana dealers in the past few weeks.
The police seized six grams of heroin and 56.5 kilograms of
dried marijuana from the suspects, officer-in-charge of the anti-
narcotics unit, Lt. Col. Panusun Samosir Pakpahan, said
yesterday.
Heroin costs around Rp 200,000 (US$85) a gram and dried
marijuana costs around Rp 1 million a kilogram on the streets of
Jakarta. Marijuana is five times cheaper in Sumatra, where it is
normally grown.
The suspects were arrested following public tips, said
Pakpahan.
The two university students were arrested on Sept. 25, in the
evening, at a house they rented at Jl. Tebet Timur Dalam VI-E No.
40 in Tebet Timur, South Jakarta.
Police identified the two suspects as Hanny M. Kalesaran, 24,
a student of ITI (Institute of Technology of Indonesia) Serpong
in Tangerang, and Ahmad Setya Sulaksana, alias Sony, 24, from
Gunadarma University in South Jakarta.
Four detectives led by First Lt. Sigit Gumantio found nothing
at the house until they searched the suspects, Pakpahan said.
On Hanny, the police found two grams of heroin, a tube and two
telephone cards. On Sony, they found four grams of heroin and two
phone cards, the officer said.
The phone cards, Pakpahan said, were allegedly used by the two
students to sort their heroin before snorting it.
"We're in the dark about the source of the heroin because the
two claimed that they got it for free from an unidentified man,"
Pakpahan said.
The first of the four alleged marijuana dealers was arrested
on Sept. 4 shortly after disembarking a ship from Medan in North
Sumatra.
Officer Pakpahan said that Rudy, 26, was arrested by
undercover detectives with 15 kilograms of marijuana in his
baggage while getting into a taxi at Tanjung Priok port in North
Jakarta.
Rudy, a resident of East Jakarta, said during questioning that
the marijuana belonged to a stranger, who asked him to deliver it
to someone in Jakarta.
"We know he's lying because he later claimed that he had no
idea about the delivery address in Jakarta," Pakpahan said.
The second alleged dealer, Wilma Laden, 30, was arrested on
Oct. 10 with 1.5 kilograms of dried marijuana at his house on Jl.
Cempaka Putih Barat in Central Jakarta.
The other two alleged drug dealers were apprehended on Oct. 16
after police found 25 kilograms of marijuana at their house in
Ciracas, East Jakarta, a day earlier.
They were identified as Asran, 30, and Zulfitri, 28, said
Pakpahan.
Preliminary police investigations have revealed that Zulfitri
allegedly brought the drugs to Jakarta by bus from Aceh, the
northern tip of Sumatra.
"He admitted that he bought the marijuana from a farmer for Rp
200,000 per kilogram," said Pakpahan.
Without citing figures, the officer said that drugs
trafficking and consumption in the city has rapidly increased
over the past few years.
"We urgently need the public to inform us so that we can
arrest the dealers and the drug users," said Pakpahan.
Police records say that most of the marijuana sold here comes
from Sumatra, while the heroin comes from the Golden Triangle in
East Asia. (bsr)