Denpasar District Court Sentenced Police To 8 Years In Prison For Drug Cases

DENPASAR - The panel of judges at the Denpasar District Court, Bali, sentenced a police officer named Gde Made Ardhana to eight years in prison for possession of narcotics.

"The trial, sentenced the defendant to eight years in prison, reduced by the temporary detention period that the defendant had served with an order that the defendant was still detained and a fine of Rp. October 14.

The panel of judges stated that the defendant was proven legally and convincingly guilty of committing a crime of conspiracy without rights or against the law possessing, storing, controlling or providing Narcotics Category I, not plants.

For his actions, the defendant was charged with Article 112 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 132 paragraph (1) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.

There are also things that are aggravating that the defendant is a person who understands and understands the law because he is a law enforcement officer (police), and does not support the government's program in eradicating narcotics. Meanwhile, mitigating factors are that the defendant has never been convicted.

For this decision, the defendant, accompanied by his lawyer from PBH Posbakum Denpasar, Aji Silaban, said he accepted. Likewise, the Public Prosecutor GA Surya Yunita PW accepted the decision.

The incident began on Monday, June 7, 2021, at around 15.00 WITA, when the defendant contacted witness I Made Buda Artana to come to the defendant's boarding house on Jalan Indra Prasta Mengwi Tani to collect 31 packages of methamphetamine on Jalan Glogor Carik Gang Family, Denpasar district. South, Denpasar City. Meanwhile, the defendant will carry out picket duties at the Badung Police.

When witness I Made Buda Artana asked Mohammad Faris Setiawan to take the methamphetamine package on Jalan Gelogor Carik Gang Family, the Denpasar Police Narcotics Unit immediately arrested the two (separate files).

From the results of the search, it was found that 31 plastic clips of narcotics type methamphetamine had a total net weight of 3.72 grams net belonging to the defendant Gde Made Ardana.

Meanwhile, the defendant was arrested at the Badung Police Lobby and found seven packages of methamphetamine with a net weight of 0.86 grams which were recognized as belonging to the defendant, so that the confiscated meth evidence was 37 packages with a total net weight of 4.58 grams which was planned to be released. the defendant resells it to the buyer.