Jakarta Police Nab 17 Drug Dealers Selling 'Fake' Ecstasy Pills
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September 16, 2021 | 11:22 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - In a short period from August to September this year, the Central Jakarta Metro Police narcotics team managed to arrest 17 drug dealers from a specific location in Cempaka Putih and Salemba.
The 17 all-male suspects were arrested for dealing fake ecstasy which is locally known as ineks pills. They all face charges up to five years imprisonment under Law No.5/1997 on psychotropic.
“We arrested all of them in different locations but for the same crime, selling illegal narcotics,” said Central Jakarta Metro Police Chief Adj. Comm. Setyo Koes Heriyanto on Thursday, September 16.
These arrests were a follow up to an earlier investigation against a drug dealer identified as ‘IP’ in East Jakarta on August 19 where police confiscated 1 kilograms of crystal meth which were going to be sold and distributed in smaller packages to 13 drug dealers.
Three suspects are members of a drug syndicate that established a home factory at Central Jakarta’s Johar Baru, to produce ‘fake ecstasy.’ The illegal drugs honed the name as its ingredients consist of a mix of legal cheap medical pills to mimic the actual drug.
This syndicate, police claim, produces 3,000 pills in a week and colors their pills with whiteboard markers.
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