Police Unload 48Kg Cannabis Smuggling From Medan In Jakut, Delivery By Land Using Expeditionary Trucks

Press conference on the disclosure of the reward case at the East Jakarta Police (Photo via Rizky Sulistio/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Drug Investigation Unit (Resnarkoba) of the East Jakarta Metro Police uncovered the smuggling of marijuana-type narcotics by land on Jalan Bimoli Muara Karang, Penjaringan Subdistrict, North Jakarta.

Two suspects with the initials RG and I were arrested along with evidence of 48 kilograms of dried marijuana ready to be distributed. Both were arrested while loading and unloading goods at the truck base.

Deputy Head of East Jakarta Metro Police AKBP Fanani explained that his party was still pursuing one suspect with the initials SP (DPO) who was allegedly the supplier of the dried marijuana.

"The marijuana was smuggled along with expeditionary goods from Medan, North Sumatra. We confiscated a truck containing dried marijuana on the land route," AKBP Fanani told reporters, Wednesday, March 30.

Currently, the case is still under development by the East Jakarta Metro Police Narcotics Unit.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Head of Drug Research at the East Jakarta Metro Police, Kompol Gunarto, added that the two suspects were suspected of being couriers for delivering illicit goods of dried marijuana. However, both have inter-island networks in Indonesia.

"There is a network, we are still developing it. An inter-island network in Indonesia," he added to VOI.

The disclosure of the smuggling of dried marijuana was made from information received by the Police.

Based on information about the shipment of large quantities of dried marijuana, the East Jakarta Metro Police Narcotics Team began to develop and investigate.

"We have carried out surveillance (supervision) since 1 month ago. (them). We have mapped the two suspects," he said.

When the two suspects sent packages of dried marijuana by land. Then when loading and unloading, an ambush was immediately carried out.

"The two suspects sent the illegal marijuana type, because there was an order," he said.