Police Dismantle West Sumatra-Bengkulu Drug Trafficking Network, 1 In 5 Suspects Still Underage

Five suspects in cross-provincial network drugs who were arrested by the Mukomuko District Police, Friday (19/5/2023) ANTARA/HO-Special.

BENGKULU - Mukomuko Resort Police (Polres) revealed a network of cross-provincial drug trafficking. Five suspects were arrested, one of the minors. "The Mukomuko Police Narcotics Unit revealed a criminal act of abuse and narcotics dealer between Bengkulu-Sumbar Province. Five suspects were arrested," said Mukomuko Police Chief AKBP Nuswanto in Mukomuko, Bengkulu Province, Friday, May 19, confiscated by Antara. He said the police managed to uncover a network of drug trafficking based on information from the public regarding the existence of suspected marijuana class I narcotics dealer from West Sumatra Province for sale in this area. He explained that Sat Resnarkoba personnel conducted an investigation so that on Monday, May 15 at 22.30 WIB, three people were caught in the hands of marijuana-type drugs with the initials D, M, N. From the information obtained that D was the perpetrator who bought and sold marijuana-type narcotics, then two marijuana dealers belonging to D were carried out with the initials F and a minor who had sold 10 packages of marijuana. The case can be secured by narcotics evidence class 1 type of marijuana weighing 137.11 grams.

In addition, the police also secured evidence of a pack of cigarette boxes containing allegedly class 1 Narcotics in the form of marijuana-type plants. He said that apart from establishing as many as five suspects in this case, they brought two minors, but both were examined as witnesses in this case m. "We have brought two minors to be questioned as witnesses based on the results of the examination information and five people have been named as suspects," he said. The head of the Mukomuko Police, AKBP Nuswanto, stated that five people suspected of being the perpetrators of narcotics abuse and inter-provincial narcotics dealers were taken to the Mukomuko Police for further examination.