Family Of ASN Health Involved In Drugs In OKI Sumsel Against When Ransacked, Police Cars Threw Stone

Director of the Drug Investigation Directorate of the South Sumatra Police, Kombes Heru Agung Nugroho, shows evidence of drugs belonging to the suspect WA (42)/ANTARA

PALEMBANG - Police arrested a state civil servant in the field of health services in Ogan Komering Ilir Regency, South Sumatra for being a drug dealer. Director of the Drug Investigation Directorate of the South Sumatra Police, Kombes Heru Agung Nugroho, said the suspect's initials WA (42), a resident of Srigeni Village, Kayu Agung, Ogan Komering Ilir. WA served as a nurse at the Srigeni Health Center Office, Ogan Komering Ilir Health Service. The suspect was caught red-handed selling methamphetamine and ecstasy pills to the police disguised himself as a buyer, last Wednesday evening at around 18.00 WIB, in the local village area. He was arrested after he worked at the Puskesmas. He is suspected of being the dealer there, who delivered methamphetamine and ecstasy directly to our undercover personnel, ” Nugroho told reporters in Palembang, Antara, Tuesday, December 13. According to him, the suspect's drug trafficking activity was revealed to have started from around 50 public complaints to the police aid number. In the report, the people of Srigeni Village said they were already worried about the increasingly concerning drug trafficking activities in their village. "The harassment is true, the activities of drug trafficking carried out by the suspect involve all members of his extended family in recent years," he said. He explained to investigators that the suspect claimed to have received supplies of methamphetamine and ecstasy from his family with the initials J and C. From the proceeds from selling drugs, WA gets a profit of Rp. 20 million per package which is usually distributed for one month. " “ The person concerned is desperate (the suspect) to be involved in this illicit business because he is a single parent for his child and is in debt," he said. He said the police had difficulty tracing the whereabouts of the alleged perpetrators J and C and other networks of suspects. Because, when his personnel wanted to search the suspect's house to look for other evidence, the family concerned tried to protect by fighting back. The resistance was carried out by the suspect's family by destroying the suspect's cellphone as evidence and a police car was thrown with bricks until it was damaged. However, he confirmed, the WA case files currently being detained along with evidence of methamphetamine weighing 21.23 grams and 16 ecstasy pills to undergo examination at the South Sumatra Police Headquarters can be immediately completed and transferred to the Prosecutor's Office. As for his actions, the suspect was charged with Article 144 and/or Article 112 Juncto Article 132 and Article 127 of Law (UU) Number 36 of 2009 concerning drugs with the threat of a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.