Zarina insists she's not drug owner
Zarina insists she's not drug owner
JAKARTA (JP): Drug suspect Zarina Mirafsur testified at a
hearing of her alleged accomplice Ahian Santoso, alias Yeye, in
West Jakarta District Court on Wednesday that she was not the
owner of the drugs seized in a hotel room in West Jakarta last
November.
"Defendant Ahian Santoso admitted during the arrest that the
drugs belonged to him," Zarina told the presiding judge, Sri
Handojo.
The panel of judges summoned Zarina to testify about the
circumstances of her arrest in a hotel apartment in West Jakarta
in November last year and her meeting with Yeye in a house
belonging to Nazar Aliando, in East Jakarta on Oct. 1, last year.
Yeye and Zarina were arrested by West Jakarta Police
detectives at a hotel apartment in West Jakarta during an early
morning raid. The police confiscated 0.3 grams of shabu-shabu
(crystal methamphetamine), tin foil, five Happy Five pills and
paraphernalia used to inhale drugs.
"I arrived at the hotel at 6.20 a.m on Nov. 11, and went to
room 1512 where Yeye stayed. But, five minutes later Maj. Ketut
Gunawa and Maj. Sgt. Abad Harefa came to the room and arrested
us," she said, while insisting that she had no knowledge of the
presence of the drugs.
She said it was an accident that the two police officers were
present at the room in the morning, since they were conducting
raids in other rooms of the hotel.
"They knocked at the door after hearing both of us
quarreling," she said.
Both officers then arrested Yeye and Zarina after they found
the drugs lying on a table in the room.
Yeye has denied in the police report that the drugs belonged
to him.
Meanwhile, Zarina, once dubbed as the "Ecstasy Queen" after
being caught with around 30,000 ecstasy pills in 1996, said she
only dropped by for a visit after being invited by Yeye the
previous day.
Besides asking Zarina about the arrest, the panel of judges
also asked if she knew Yeye was inhaling shabu-shabu during a
gathering in a house in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, on Oct. 1.
Present at the gathering were the house's owner Nazar Aliando,
Yeye, Zarina's accomplice, Jantje Gustaf Mustamu, a driver, Dedy
Mulyadi, and Zarina.
Zarina insisted that she did not have knowledge about people
inhaling shabu-shabu during the gathering, saying that the four
were dancing and listening to the music.
"The studio at the house was very dark. I couldn't determine
whether the four people were inhaling shabu-shabu," she said.
Yeye is indicted for possession and transporting drugs, a
violation to articles 62 and 65 of the Law on Psychotropic
substances.
The presiding judge adjourned the hearing until next Monday to
hear testimony from Yeye. (09/asa)