Mataram - The Mataram City Police, West Nusa Tenggara, arrested a narcotics case convict with the initials SR (51) in the Karang Bagu Neighborhood with evidence of 31 packages ready to be distributed allegedly containing methamphetamine.
Head of the Narcotics Unit of the Mataram Police, AKP I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Suputra, explained that his party arrested the person concerned following a complaint from the public who were uneasy seeing the suspected perpetrators' activities selling narcotics from the side alley of the mosque.
"Based on this information, we conducted an investigation and this morning we arrested the suspect (SR) while standing in the mosque alley, it is suspected that this SR is waiting for a buyer," he said in Mataram, Tuesday, quoted by Antara.
During the arrest, which was also witnessed by environmental devices and residents, the police found from the SR body search evidence in the form of white crystalline powder suspected of being methamphetamine in dozens of pockets made of clear plastic clips.
"We found 31 pockets of evidence in three clear plastic clips. There is one clip containing nine pockets, there are seven pockets left, there are 15 pockets in one clip," said Bagus.
In addition to narcotics, the police also seized cash allegedly from the sale of Rp485 thousand, mobile phones, and plastic pipettes with pointed ends.
In addition to arresting SR, Bagus and field operation members also developed other gangs and got another suspected dealer with the initials MR (18).
From the arrest of MR, the police confiscated six ready-to-use pockets allegedly containing methamphetamine from his pants pocket, cash allegedly from the sale of Rp. 3.61 million and a mobile phone.
"According to the results of the follow-up examination, the white crystalline powder that we seized has been confirmed as a type of methamphetamine and the overall weighing results, the gross weight reached 8.54 grams," he said.
With this intensive arrest, Bagus said that his party still had to develop to trace the network of the two perpetrators' narcotics circulation in the Karang Bagu area.
Now both of them have been detained in the status of suspects who are suspected of violating Article 114 paragraph (2) of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 209 concerning Narcotics in conjunction with Article 609 paragraph (2) letter a of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code in conjunction with Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2026 concerning Criminal Adjustment, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Mataram - The Mataram City Police, West Nusa Tenggara, arrested a narcotics case convict with the initials SR (51) in the Karang Bagu Neighborhood with evidence of 31 packages ready to be distributed allegedly containing methamphetamine.
Head of the Narcotics Unit of the Mataram Police, AKP I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Suputra, explained that his party arrested the person concerned following a complaint from the public who were uneasy seeing the suspected perpetrators' activities selling narcotics from the side alley of the mosque.
"Based on this information, we conducted an investigation and this morning we arrested the suspect (SR) while standing in the mosque alley, it is suspected that this SR is waiting for a buyer," he said in Mataram, Tuesday, quoted by Antara.
During the arrest, which was also witnessed by environmental devices and residents, the police found from the SR body search evidence in the form of white crystalline powder suspected of being methamphetamine in dozens of pockets made of clear plastic clips.
"We found 31 pockets of evidence in three clear plastic clips. There is one clip containing nine pockets, there are seven pockets left, there are 15 pockets in one clip," said Bagus.
In addition to narcotics, the police also seized cash allegedly from the sale of Rp485 thousand, mobile phones, and plastic pipettes with pointed ends.
In addition to arresting SR, Bagus and field operation members also developed other gangs and got another suspected dealer with the initials MR (18).
From the arrest of MR, the police confiscated six ready-to-use pockets allegedly containing methamphetamine from his pants pocket, cash allegedly from the sale of Rp. 3.61 million and a mobile phone.
"According to the results of the follow-up examination, the white crystalline powder that we seized has been confirmed as a type of methamphetamine and the overall weighing results, the gross weight reached 8.54 grams," he said.
With this intensive arrest, Bagus said that his party still had to develop to trace the network of the two perpetrators' narcotics circulation in the Karang Bagu area.
Now both of them have been detained in the status of suspects who are suspected of violating Article 114 paragraph (2) of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 209 concerning Narcotics in conjunction with Article 609 paragraph (2) letter a of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code in conjunction with Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2026 concerning Criminal Adjustment, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
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