Woman arrested for drug possession

Woman arrested for drug possession

TANGERANG (JP): A fifty-three-year-old woman named Kartini was
arrested by custom and excise officers at Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport with 532 ecstasy pills hidden in a small
pillow and handbag, police said on Thursday.

"Kartini was nabbed by officers on Tuesday when she was about
to board a Garuda Airways flight to North Sumatra capital of
Medan from Terminal E," airport police chief Asst. Supt. Napoleon
Bonaparte said at a media conference.

The woman admitted to have been given a roundtrip Jakarta -
Medan ticket, he said.

She had been told to hand the drugs to a courier in Medan's
Polonia Airport, he added.

"We tried to capture the courier in Medan but nothing showed
up. It seems that Kartini is only a victim here and the network
has outsmarted her," Napoleon said.

The police have secured the green ecstasy pills, the pillow
and handbag as evidence. (41/edt)