Police Seize Drugs Packed in Processed Food Packaging
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Laila Afifa
Sabtu, 19 Januari 2019 16:35 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police arrest eleven suspects of Jakarta-Banjarmasin drug distribution network, on Friday, January 18, 2019. The group distributed the drug in a suitcase and rented a hotel room to hand over the suitcase.
The network also packed the drug in processed food product packagings, with two designs, which were self-produced.
“The intentionally designed these packagings to smuggle the drugs,” said the Head of sub-directorate I Jakarta Metro Police's Drug Unit sr. Comr. Jean Calvijn Simanjuntak in his office on Friday, January 18.
On the packages were written with ‘100 percent Halal’ and ‘100 percent Indonesia’ logos. “I’ve searched on the internet but there are no such products,” said Clavijn, adding that one package was used to store 0.5 kg meth.
As many as 11 people are named as suspects through a series of arrest since December 13, 2018, up to January 19, 2019. Calvijn said that the police still hunt other two fugitives.
The authorities have confiscated 6.5 kilogram of crystal meth, 20,000 of Yaba pills weighing 4,900 gram, 57,578 ecstasy pills, and 15.19 gram marijuana. The drugs were previously planned to be distributed on 2019 New Years's Eve but it was successfully foiled.
