Two nabbed for drug possession

Two nabbed for drug possession

JAKARTA (JP): Police have arrested two men, one of whom
claimed to be a relative of former president Soeharto, for being
in possession of 1.5 grams of heroin, an officer said on
Saturday.

Jakarta Police detective chief of the narcotics division,
Supt. Abdullah, identified the two as Aryo, 21, and Salim, 30.

The heroin was contained in seven small packages, he added.

The police first apprehended Salim with a small package of
heroin in his pocket during a raid on Friday evening, he said.

Based on Salim's explanation that he had obtained the drugs
from a man called Aryo, the police then managed to arrest the
latter at his house in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, on the same
day.

During questioning, Aryo told the police that he is a relative
of the late Tien Soeharto, wife of former president Soeharto.

Unlike in the years when Soeharto was still in power and the
police would have been too intimidated to arrest any of his
relatives, the police this time merely listened to Aryo and then
placed him in Jakarta Police detention.

This is the second drug possession case which allegedly
involves members of the Soeharto family since he left office in
1998.

Late last month, West Jakarta Police detectives arrested his
grand daughter-in-law, Gusti Maya Firanti Noor, 25, wife of Ari
Sigit.

She was taken into custody at the Olympia Hotel, which is
located in the popular Lokasari entertainment complex in West
Jakarta, following a report made to the police by a local
security guard after she used a Rp 50,000 counterfeit note to buy
a prepaid cellular phone voucher.

The police searched her and her Mercedes Benz "new eyes" car
and found 1.5 grams of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) kept
in a small plastic bag, and some drug paraphernalia. (06)