225 Illegal Drugs Ready To Edar Arrested By South Kalimantan Tabalong Police

Evidence of illegal drugs (ANTARA)

The Tabalong Police Narcotics Investigation Unit of South Kalimantan Province managed to arrest a local resident with the initials AS (32) who was proven to have 225 pills of illegal drugs.

The resident of Jaro Subdistrict was arrested as a follow-up to the arrest of YD who is also related to the circulation of illegal drugs.

"We arrested YD perpetrator first and admitted to buying illegal drugs from US suspects," said Tabalong Police Chief AKBP Anib Bastian as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, May 19.

The arrests led by Kasatresnarkoba AKP Fathony Bahrul Arifin, together with the Jaro Police, led by Iptu Segeryanto, were a follow-up to the arrest of perpetrator YD along with nine pills of illegal drugs.

Anib said the US perpetrators were arrested on Wednesday (17/5) morning in Purui Village, Jaro District based on information from the public who suspected that their residents were distributing illegal drugs.

Furthermore, the perpetrator YD was arrested by the police after buying nine pills for Rp. 50,000 and claimed to have received the drugs from US perpetrators.

The police then developed the information and visited the residence of the US perpetrator and found hundreds of pills of illegal drugs stored in the perpetrator's room.

The US perpetrator is currently being held at the Tabalong Police for further legal proceedings with evidence in the form of 25 plastic clips containing drugs without brands.

With a total of 225 pills and a pack of drugs without brands as many as 29 pills, two used cigarette boxes, one pack containing drugs without nine pills and cash from the sale of Rp250 thousand.

The two perpetrators are subject to Article 197 in conjunction with Article 106 paragraph (1) and/or paragraph (2) of the Republic of Indonesia Law number 36 of 2009 concerning health as amended based on Article 60 number 10 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 6 of 2023 concerning the stipulation of government regulations in lieu of Law Number 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation into law.