Police Arrest Jember Residents Planting Cannabis In Home Yard

Jember Police Chief AKBP M. Nurhidayat with Jember Regent Hendy Siswanto/ANTARA

Jember Resort Police, East Java, arrested a resident of Karangbayat Village with the initials MT who cultivated marijuana plants in his yard.

"The disclosure of the cannabis plant at the perpetrator's house after the Jember Police Satreskoba officers arrested MR, a resident of Tanggul District, as a user and dealer of methamphetamine," said Jember Police Chief AKBP M. Nurhidayat in a press conference quoted by ANTARA, Friday, November 10.

From the examination of MR, the police received instructions that the marijuana package was obtained from MT. The police then conducted an investigation and finally arrested MT.

"From the results of the interim examination of the perpetrators, MT admitted that he had obtained the cannabis plant from someone who told him to plant it," he said.

The police chief explained that MT got the cannabis seeds from his friend's gift and was told to plant them. However, the confession cannot be trusted so that the police will still investigate this.

To account for his actions, the police charged the perpetrators with Article 112, 114 and also Article 111 of the Criminal Code with a minimum penalty of five years and a maximum of 20 years in prison.

Meanwhile, from the hands of the perpetrators of MT, the police confiscated five large cannabis trees and six cannabis seeds that had just grown at a height of no more than 10 centimeters.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Jember Hendy Siswanto appreciated the success of the Jember Police who had uncovered the dealers and perpetrators of cultivation wet cannabis plants.

"I was sad and shocked, in Jember Regency there were residents who planted marijuana. It was my first time Jember people saw marijuana plants," said Hendy, who was present at the press conference.

The Regent is concerned about the police's findings regarding residents planting funds in the yard of the house and emphasized that preventing narcotics trafficking is a shared responsibility.

"I hope that the community is proactive and dares to report if there is narcotics trafficking in the surrounding environment because it cannot be done if the police work alone in eradicating narcotics trafficking, there must be community involvement," he said.