Weapons seized at airport

Weapons seized at airport

TANGERANG (JP): Customs and Excise officers at Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport has foiled attempts to smuggle 44 weapons
and 108,472 video compact discs (VCDs) into the country over the
past couple of months.

Head of Custom and Excise Office Heru Santoso revealed in a
media briefing on Saturday that among the 44 weapons seized were
replicas of M-16 automatic rifles, Colt pistols, gas gun
ammunition and several revolvers.

"We are still probing the cases in coordination with local
police. These guns do not have any sufficient documents at all
and they entered the country through untraceable addresses," Heru
said.

In a related development, Customs and Excise officials
arrested on Friday a university student in Bogor, identified as
Slamet Bachtiar alias Acun, 28, for trafficking 90 grams of
first-grade heroin through the post from Bangkok. (41/edt)