New Mode Of Drug Dealers In Riau Islands Use Snack Packs, Kapolda Asks Residents To Be Alert

Riau Islands Police Chief Inspector General Tabana Bangun when releasing the catch of a 'happy water' drug in Batam. (ANTARA)

Riau Islands Police Chief Inspector General Tabana Bangun reminded residents to be aware of drug trafficking using snacks in the Riau Islands area. " “ Please inform the public to be more careful if you find a suspicious snack package, because it could contain drugs," said Tabana in Batam, Riau Islands, Antara, Monday, March 13. He conveyed the appeal after the Riau Islands Police succeeded in uncovering a case of drug trafficking of happy water in Batam using a coffee packaging package brought from Malaysia. "We are also seeing a new mode like this that uses snacks to distribute drugs," he said. Therefore, the public must be observant when they find such packages and immediately report them to the police. “ So don't just look at the outer wrap, but also the inside. Because the packaging is to manipulate the officers, ” he said. The Riau Islands Police thwarted a case of drug trafficking type “ happy water ” in Batam, and arrested one suspect from Malaysia with the initials MA (33). "We arrested MA, a resident of Johor Bahru, Malaysia for carrying 1,392 grams of happy water ” happy water; on March 4, 2023 at Harbor Bay Harbor, Batam City,” said the Head of the Riau Islands Police Inspector General Pol. Tabana Bangun in Batam Riau Islands, Monday (13/3). He explained, in the disclosure of this case, his party actually arrested 3 people. However, after processing, his party named the Supreme Court as a suspect. The two people who were processed, he said, were crew members of the ship who were entrusted by the suspect to bring the drug package from Malaysia to Batam. They were acquitted of charges because they did not know what was in the goods deposited after being questioned by the police. The Tabana Bangun Police Chief said that the MA, who works as an ambulance driver in Malaysia, acted as an intermediary who was ordered to deliver the drugs to Batam by someone in Malaysia with the initials WAS. "He is an intermediary who was ordered to deliver to someone in Batam with the initials A, who has now been designated as a DPO (In Search for People)," he said. He said drug smuggling in this case was a new thing in which the suspect circulated using coffee packaging to trick the officers.