Bokingan Woman In Mataram Allegedly Involved In Methamphetamine Network, Arrested With Dealers At Melati Hotel

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West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) - Mataram City Police (Polresta) arrested AA (26), a womanbokingan or BO via social media applications was involved in a drug trafficking network of methamphetamine.

Head of the Mataram Police Narcotics Unit AKP I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Suputra said the BO woman had the initials AA (26) from Dompu Regency. Arrested with a man suspected of being the dealer with the initials H (47), from Cakranegara, Mataram City.

"We arrested the person concerned (AA) when he was with a man (H) who we suspected was a dealer. We both arrested them in one of the hotel rooms for the jasmine class in the Cakranegara area," he said in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Tuesday, January 16, which was confiscated by Antara.

Bagus explained that H was secured when he was about to give a package of methamphetamine to AA.

"So, from the examination, AA admitted that he was asked to find methamphetamine with his date, and he went to H who was in a different room," he said.

H's allegations as a dealer were corroborated by the results of a search of the hotel room. The police found a pack of cigarettes containing five pockets of methamphetamine ready for distribution.

"The pile of cigarettes containing a pocket of methamphetamine ready for distribution, we found them stored under the bed pillow," he said.

By outlining the roles of each of the perpetrators, Bagus said the two had now been named suspects.

"We apply the suspicion of Article 112 paragraph (1) and/or Article 114 paragraph (1) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics," he said.

Bagus said that his party did not close and then investigated the suspicion that there were other suspects in the development in the field.

"We are still investigating all the evidence we have obtained, including deepening the information of the hotel owner, whether he is aware of this activity at his place of business," he said.