5 Methamphetamine Network Arrested In West Lombok, Parents Of Perpetrators Dispose Of Barbuk

The officers' action was to arrest one of the suspected methamphetamine drug trafficking networks on the side of the road in the Sandubaya area, Mataram, NTB, Wednesday (13/3/2024). ANTARA/HO-Polresta Mataram.

The Mataram City Police (Polresta) arrested five suspected perpetrators suspected of being involved in a network of methamphetamine-type narcotics trafficking.

The five are from Bengkel, West Lombok Regency, with the initials MM (20), MT (40), AA (24), MN (50) and MK (53). They were arrested in three different locations on Wednesday, March 13.

"Initially, the first location we arrested MM and MT on the side of the road in the Sandubaya area, Mataram City," Head of the Mataram Police Narcotics Unit AKP I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Suputra in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Thursday, March 14, was confiscated by Antara.

The arrests of the two perpetrators began with information from the public who said that there were frequent narcotics transactions at these locations.

"From the first location, we arrested both of them with the findings of evidence of methamphetamine," he said.

The two suspected perpetrators admitted that the items were obtained from a man from Montong Are, Mataram City, namely AA.

"AA kami tangkap dengan pengakuan barang yang didapat dari MM dan MT berasal dari dia (AA)," kata Bagus.

Furthermore, perpetrator AA told the police that the item was obtained from a man with the initials LS who was in the Bengkel area.

Then the police team immediately carried out developments to the third location.

"From the third location, we did not find LS, but MN and MK, his parents," he said.

When the police carried out the raid, MN and MK were revealed to be consuming methamphetamine in the room.

"It was also revealed that when the team arrived, the Constitutional Court, the biological mother of LS, threw some of the evidence (barbuk) into the bathroom toilet," he said.

Furthermore, Bagus ensured that LS's whereabouts were still being searched by the team in the field.

The five suspected perpetrators are now being held at the Mataram Police.