Sukabumi Police Confiscate Tens Of Thousands Of Illegal Hard Drugs

The Sukabumi Police Narcotics Unit managed to confiscate tens of thousands of pills of illegal limited hard drugs from four suspects who were arrested in three different locations in the Sukabumi City area, West Java.

"The amount of evidence confiscated was 50,426 pills of limited hard drugs from various brands," said Sukabumi Police Chief AKBP Maruly Pardede as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, June 7.

According to Maruly, the arrest of the suspect and the confiscation of evidence were the result of the disclosure of cases carried out by the Sukabumi Police Satnarkoba throughout May until early June 2023.

The four suspects with the initials ST and MS were arrested at the Cibadak T-junction, precisely Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan, Kelurahan/Kecamatan Cibadak, Sukabumi Regency.

Furthermore, the suspect ML was arrested in Warungceuri Village, RT 012/005, Pondokkasolandeuh Village, Parungkuda District and suspect AM was arrested in Jayanti Village RT 001/004, Jayanti Village, Palabuhanratu District, Sukabumi Regency.

The arrests of the suspects came from public information and one of them was a resident who contacted the Sukabumi Police's (Curhat Aa Dede) police service, which was later developed and succeeded in arresting suspects for illegal limited hard drug dealers or without a doctor's prescription.

The circulation targets range from the general public to students whose majority of users are still of productive age. He added that the circulation of limited hard drugs is rampant in his jurisdiction.

The police chief instructed all his staff, both on duty at the Polres and Polsek levels, to increase supervision. In addition, the participation of the community in providing information related to drug trafficking is needed by his party in an effort to fight against all forms and abuse of drugs in the jurisdiction of the Sukabumi Police.

The articles charged to the suspects in the criminal act of limited drug trafficking are Article 197 Jo 106 paragraph (1), UURRl Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health with the threat of imprisonment for a maximum of 10 years.

Meanwhile, one of the suspects, ST, admitted that he got thousands of pills of hard drugs from someone to be circulated back in the Cibadak District and its surroundings. The mode of circulation is either by pasting where the suspect only communicates with his consumers by telephone and there are also those who meet directly or.