Surabaya Police thwarted the circulation of 33.9 kilograms of methamphetamine which was packaged into 33 packs of tea with a label that read Chinese letters stored in two suitcases.
Kapolrestabes Surabaya Kombes Pasma Royce explained that the evidence was obtained from two dealers, each with the initials DN (24), a resident of Sidoarjo, East Java, and HH (33), a resident of Bandung, West Java.
"Our two perpetrators were arrested at a hotel in the Palembang City area, South Sumatra recently," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 26.
The arrests of DN and HH were the result of the development of an investigation from the previous case, after May 2023 arresting a narcotics dealer with the initials PN by securing evidence of methamphetamine weighing 28.3 kilograms.
The perpetrators are suspected of being a gang of narcotics dealers of methamphetamine from the Sumatra-Java network.
"The evidence of methamphetamine type narcotics that we confiscated from the perpetrators DN and HH is planned to be brought from Palembang to the Java region to be circulated, especially in the city of Surabaya. But we can fail it," said Pasma.
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From the perpetrators DN and HH, the police secured evidence in the form of Rp6.6 million in cash, electric scales, three cell phones, and seven fake identity cards (KTP).
The perpetrators were charged with Article 114 Paragraph 2 and Article 112 Paragraph 2 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia (UU RI) in 2009 concerning Narcotics. The threat of punishment is a maximum of life imprisonment.
Pasma ensured that he was still continuing to develop an investigation to uncover other syndicates of perpetrators suspected of originating from a narcotics trafficking network in the Sumatra-Java area.
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