Two tried for drug dealing

Two tried for drug dealing

JAKARTA (JP): Two men were indicted at West Jakarta District
Court yesterday for trying to sell 100 Ecstasy pills worth about
Rp 2.8 million (US$777.70).

Prosecutor Ohoi Ulun said the two defendants, identified as
Anam Yacob, 31, and Ali Hartono, 29, were arrested at Atlanta
Discotheque in Tamansari, West Jakarta, on July 13.

The discotheque's security guards apprehended the defendants
when they tried to offer some of the pills to a prospective buyer
called Darmawan, Ohoi said.

He said the two men and Darmawan were taken to a nearby police
station for questioning.

Police officers found the defendants' remaining pills, after
the interrogation, in the tape recorder of a car rented by Anam,
Ohoi said.

Anam admitted buying the pills from a man, Yacob Budi, at
Pecenongan Hotel on Jl. Samanhudi, Central Jakarta, on July 12,
he said.

Anam, a resident of Lampung, also implicated a middleman,
identified as Wewe, who had set up the meeting with the Ecstasy
supplier. Wewe is still at large.

The prosecutor charged Anam and Ali under Article 60 of Law
No. 5/1997 on psychotropic drugs, which carries a jail sentence
of 15 years and fines of Rp 200 million.

He said Budi and Darmawan were tried in the same court but
during different sessions.

Presiding judge Fadly Fahimi adjourned the trial until next
week to hear witnesses' testimonies. (jun)