Police Arrest Teen Drug Mule Linked to Nigerian Drug Syndicate
20 July 2018 18:08 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono said the police had apprehended a seventeen-year-old teenager (RS) that was transporting 2,915 ecstasy pills with links to an international Nigerian drug network.
“The Jakarta Police have successfully thwarted an attempted trafficking of ecstasy pills from a Nigeria-Indonesia drug trafficker,” said Argo at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Friday, July 20.
RS was arrested on Jl. Bendungan Hilir Raya in Central Jakarta.
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Argo explained that police confiscated a package comprising four plastic bags that contained 2,915 ecstasy pills. Each bag consists of 1,001 pills, 1,002 pills, 472 pills, and 440 pills, respectively.
The police foiled the attempted trafficking following a tip-off on a planned narcotics transaction involving an international drug network, and that the ecstasy pills would be sold across the capital. The ecstasy pills were known to originate from France that is controlled by a Nigerian citizen named Paul.
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