Police Reveal Cross-border Drug Network In Pasar Kemis Tangerang Area

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TANGERANG - The police have arrested 7 drug traffickers in a cross-provincial and cross-country network. The two had the initials AST, DS, MI, RBS, BY and ADS.

Head of Banten Regional Police Humas Kombes Pol Shinto Silitonga said the first arrest occurred in the Tangerang Regency area, Wednesday, June 18.

"Their first managed to arrest ASY (27) in the Cikupa area, Tangerang Regency, evidence of 0.25 grams of crystal methamphetamine," Shinto said when confirmed, Friday, June 31.

"Then followed by an arrest located in the Sukamulya area, DS (27) where he rented evidence of shabu weighing 17.65 grams," he added.

After being examined and developed, Tangerang Police investigators found that there were suppliers in the Pasar Kemis area.

Finally, the police arrested MI as a shabu dealer with evidence that was confiscated by 768.4 grams of methamphetamine, which was packaged in 8 large black plastic bags.

"Investigators analyzed and gathered information about major airports not from Banten, so the team carried out a series of further arrests on Sunday," he said.

It did not stop there, the police continued to develop the case until they finally arrested the drug dealer with the initials BY. From the results, it was found that two boxes containing 20 packs of drugs and two backpacks containing 20 packs of drugs were found in a car with black plastic packaging weighing 40 kilograms.

"At the same time as BY's arrest, investigators arrested suspect RBS (26) when he was riding with ADS (28) in a housing complex in Bekasi," he said.

"After a thorough search, there were several plastic packages containing crystal methamphetamine weighing 241.89 grams and black plastic containing 494 ecstasy pills," he continued.

On this occasion, Shinto revealed that this case was a major arrest of a cross-provincial cross-country drug dealer syndicate, the team managed to secure a lot of evidence.

"The total confiscation of evidence of drugs from syndicates of drug dealers across provinces across countries after the weighing was carried out was 43.2 kg of methamphetamine and 494 pills of Ecstasy," he explained.

In this case, the suspect is charged with multiple layers of articles, namely Article 112 paragraph (2), Article 114 paragraph (2) and Article 132 of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics with a minimum criminal threat of 12 years in prison. suspects on suspicion of money laundering.

Article 137 of Law Number 35 of 2009 is intended to provide a deterrent effect by impoverishing the perpetrators against the perpetrators so that they do not have the potential to distribute drugs in the future.