Padang Police Arrest Members Of The Sumatran Police, Kompol BA In Connection With The Methamphetamine Case

Padang Police Chief Kombes Pol Imran Amir (left) during a press conference Thursday, April 21. (ANTARA/FathulAbdi)

SUMBAR - The Rajawali Team belonging to the Padang Police Narcotics Investigation Unit arrested Police Commissioner (Kompol) BA (49) a member of the West Sumatra Police (Sumbar). BA was arrested in connection with the use of methamphetamine.

"The arrest of Kompol BA was made after the Rajawali Team of the Drugs Satres of the Padang Police arrested another suspect with the initials K," said Head of Public Relations of the West Sumatra Police, Kombes Pol. Satake Bayu, in Padang, quoted from Antara, Thursday, April 21.

He said this at a press conference with the media crew at the Padang Police Headquarters with the Padang Police Chief Kombes Pol Imran Amir, and other officials.

He explained that the arrest of suspect K (47) was carried out in a hotel room with the address at Jalan Purus, West Padang District, Padang City.

From the arrest, the police secured a number of evidences in the form of 10 packages of methamphetamine, bongs, and two units of smartphones (smartphones), one of which belonged to Kompol BA.

After K's arrest at the hotel, BA then went to the Padang Police Office intending to take his device, but the officers did not let him go.

"When we were in the yard of the Padang Police Headquarters, we immediately secured him for questioning," he said.

The Padang Police immediately interrogated BA, who is now in charge of the Sabhara Directorate of the West Sumatra Police, and it was finally revealed that he also had crystal methamphetamine hidden in the hotel room where suspect K was arrested.

The Rajawali team of the Padang Police Narcotics Satres together with the West Sumatra Police Subbid Provost went straight to the hotel room to secure the evidence mentioned.

BA's hidden items in the hotel room amounted to a small package. The apparatus also secured one needle and the other.

Suspects K and BA were detained at Mapolresta Padang on suspicion of drug abuse. Both were charged with Article 114 paragraph (1) Jo. Article 112 paragraph (1) Jo. Article 132 paragraph (1) Jo. Article 127 paragraph (1) of Law no. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics with the threat of imprisonment for a minimum of five years and a maximum of 20 years in prison.