Two apprehended for drugs

Two apprehended for drugs

JAKARTA: Police arrested two alleged ecstasy dealers and confiscated 1,518 ecstasy pills, chemical substances and drug manufacturing equipment in two separate busts earlier this week.

The two suspects had been under police surveillance, Antara news agency reported on Friday.

The first to be booked was identified only as TRT following an undercover operation on Jl. Enggano in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on Tuesday. The police confiscated 118 ecstasy pills from TRT.

Further investigation revealed that TRT received the drugs from another man, identified only as S, who was then caught in the parking lot of the Town House of Rajawali Apartment in Central Jakarta. S was in possession of 1,400 ecstasy pills.

Police officers then searched TRT's house in Muara Karang, North Jakarta, and reportedly found various chemical substances and equipment used to produce ecstasy.-- JP