Drug Dealer Blunders On Christmas Eve

Cathedral security post (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - In the run-up to the Christmas celebration, the police were busy guarding a number of places of worship. In fact, this moment was also used by narcotics traffickers to act. With the assumption, supervision of the circulation of prohibited goods will be weak.

However, this assumption is not proven. This is because on Christmas Eve, December 24, the police actually raided the house suspected of holding methamphetamine narcotics. The area of Jalan Jelambar Utama IV, Grogol Petamburan, became the location of the raid.

Head of West Jakarta Metro Police Narcotics Detective AKBP Erick Frendriz said, during the raid, 1 kilogram of methamphetamine-type narcotics was found stored in the house. In addition, one person with the initials AY alias Gokong was arrested and named a suspect.

"The house was raided because from the information we received, the occupants were suspected of having committed drug transactions," said Erick when he was confirmed, Wednesday, December 25.

Seeing the large amount of crystal methamphetamine, there were other allegations that the prohibited items were stocks for distribution in the new year. However, this cannot be confirmed because the suspect's testimony is still being investigated.

Investigators are still exploring the motives and patterns of circulation. In addition, the origins of the prohibited items did not escape from the deepening. In fact, the involvement of other people in the circulation is still skinned.

"Whether these illicit items are intentionally circulated during the long Christmas and New Year holidays is still an intensive investigation process," said Erick.

Separately, West Jakarta Metro Police Chief of Special Team 3 Drugs Unit AKP Supriyatin added that based on the results of the interim examination, the suspect AY alias Gokong is a recidivist for a similar case. Thus, other allegations emerged if the drug trafficking was a prison network.

It's just that, to prove it, you must wait for the results of the investigation of the suspect to be completed. Only then, can the truth be proven.

"The suspect is serving a sentence of 2 years in a detention center (Rutan) in Jakarta," said Supriyatin.

For all of his actions, AY alias Gokong, was charged with Article 112 paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law No. 35 of 2009 on Narcotics.