South Sulawesi Police Chief Revealed Mode Of Delivery Of 75 Kg Of Shabu Expeditionary Line

MAKASSAR - South Sulawesi Regional Police Chief Inspector General Merdisyam said the Special Team for Drugs and Drugs Directorate had succeeded in uncovering and thwarting the shipment of 75 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and 32,747,000 ecstasy pills using land and sea routes. Delivery is carried out using the courier service mode.

"Currently, three suspects have been arrested. First, 37-year-old SYF, 24-year-old ABD, a driver who helped the 28-year-old suspect SYF and FTR," said the South Sulawesi Police Chief when releasing the case at the South Sulawesi Police Headquarters, Makassar, quoted by Antara, Tuesday. , August 31.

For the modus operandi of the suspect SYF, he said, disguised as if he was working as an expedition truck driver. Then he inserted drugs into the cargo of a freight forwarding truck and transported it as if it were an expedition item from Surabaya to Makassar.

SYF is the direct carrier and dealer in the Sulawesi region who picked up the methamphetamine and ecstasy from the city of Surabaya using an expedition truck by land and sea.

After arriving in Makassar, he continued, the evidence was then divided according to the orders of the Navy, aka the big boss of shipping goods. Furthermore, the FTR suspect who received the goods according to the operator's orders in the network was then distributed to the shabu-shabu and ecstasy buyers.

The result of the interrogation, SYF admitted that he had twice brought methamphetamine and ecstasy from Surabaya to Makassar from March to August 2021. The first shipment weighing 17 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in March 2021 was successfully carried out. And the second most delivery was successfully thwarted, which was 75 kilograms in total.

"So this is related to his duty as a carrier of the goods through an expedition route brought directly from the city of Surabaya to Makassar with a one-time fee of around Rp. 150 million to 400 million," said the Kapolda.

The mode used is an expedition truck with the police number DD 8647 RM (already secured). From his confession, every time he departed from Surabaya to Makassar, this expedition never unloaded its cargo.

Regarding the route for the circulation of these illicit goods, said this high-ranking National Police officer, South Sulawesi is the central recipient of the goods and the rest of the circulation is brought to Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi and Gorontalo to be given to the drug buyers.

The police chief explained that in the disclosure of the 75 kg shabu-shabu case, the arrests were carried out in two different places. On Wednesday, August 25, two perpetrators, SYF (37) and ABJ (24) were arrested at a hotel on Jalan Sudirman, at 19.00 WITA.

Furthermore, the Special Team for Drugs and Drugs Directorate arrested another perpetrator with the initials FTR on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at 01.00 WITA at a hotel on Jalan Mappanyukki, Mariso District, Makassar.

At the First Crime Scene (TKP) SYF and ABJ were arrested with evidence of 30 packs of methamphetamine weighing 30 kilograms and one pack of ecstasy pills, one black bag and two suitcases, as well as two cell phones. After further development, evidence was found of 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and a pack of ecstasy pills as well as a truck unit at SYF's residence in Pampang, Panakukang District.

The amount of evidence at that time was 40 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and 4,000 ecstasy pills. The development continued, until on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at 01.00 WITA, another perpetrator with the initials FTR (28) was arrested at one of the Jalan Mappanyukki hotels, with evidence of 35 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and six packs of 28,747 ecstasy pills, one large suitcase and six packs of ecstasy pills. black backpack.

Merdisyam revealed that the link between the suspect SYF and FTR was a member of a narcotics trafficking syndicate network suspected of being an international network from Malaysia and the Philippines.

The disclosure of this big case was carried out because of the hard work of the Timsus Ditresnarkoba Polda since the last two months. So far the Timsus Ditresnarkoba Polda has coordinated with the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police Headquarters on this network because it was monitored from the start.