Polda Metro Jaya Sita 12.3 Kg Sab Asal Batam Di Lombok

Officers checked the validity of the white crystalline powder suspected of being methamphetamine as a result of the arrest in Central Lombok, NTB, Wednesday (17/5/2023). ANTARA/HO-Polda NTB

The Metro Jaya Police's Narcotics Investigation Directorate team revealed that it confiscated 12.3 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from Batam on Lombok Island from two men from Central Lombok Regency with the initials S and N.

The Head of Public Relations of the NTB Police, Kombes Arman Asmara Syarifuddin, confirmed the action of the Polda Metro Jaya team.

"Yes, now the evidence weighing 12.3 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and the two perpetrators have been taken to Polda Metro Jaya," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, May 19.

Kombes Arman explained that the Metro Jaya Police's Narcotics Directorate Team carried out the action with the support of the NTB Police's Narcotics Directorate Team.

In addition, he continued, there was also support from a joint team from Customs and Excise at Soekarno-Hatta (Soeta) and Mataram Airports.

"So the Polda Metro Jaya team together with Customs and Excise Soeta conducted an investigation starting Monday (15/5) in Lombok. The arrests of the two perpetrators together with the confiscation of evidence on Wednesday (17/5)," he said.

The arrests of the two perpetrators took place at one of the freight expedition offices in the Central Lombok area. Police officers also arrested the two perpetrators by utilizing cyber facilities.

From the interrogation at the scene of the arrest, it was revealed that the two of them took the goods after getting a call from a person with the initials J from Batam.

In this regard, Arman said that the development and investigation of this case was under the handling of the Sub-Directorate III Team of the Narcotics Investigation Unit of the Metro Jaya Police.

"Because the evidence and the perpetrators were brought to Jakarta, of course, the investigation and further development were there," he said.