Using Cannabis Message Delivery Services From Medan, Men In Tanjabbar Arrested By Police-BNN

The perpetrator who was arrested for ordering dried marijuana drugs through the delivery service of a harang package, (ANTARA/HO- Eko)

The joint team consisting of Customs and Excise, BNN and Tanjabbar Police arrested a marijuana customer who was sent via a package of goods delivery services. Tanjabbar Police Chief AKBP Agung Basuki said illegal marijuana items were confiscated from the hands of suspect Nando (26) in Gapura Welcomes Merlung District, Tabbabbar Regency. The joint team disguised themselves using the method of being couriers who would deliver packages until they managed to apprehend Nando. The arrest began with information received by the Tanjabbar Police Narcotics Unit on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, from Jambi Customs and Excise, that there would be a shipment of marijuana packages through a JNT delivery service in Merlung District. "Receiving this information, the joint team then on Friday, April 12, 2024, at around 05.00 WIB, headed to the JNT office in Merlung to confirm the truth of the report," he said in an official statement received by Antara, Sunday, April 14. Agung Basuki explained that at 08.00 WIB the team who arrived at JNT Merlung immediately disguised itself as a JNT courier along with JNT employees to deliver the package to the destination address. "We moved to the address of the recipient of the package in Pengyabungan Village, Merlung," he said The team that arrived at the location immediately contacted the owner of the marijuana-type narcotics package to meet at Gapura Pengyabungan Village, Merlung. The suspect who came immediately approached JNT employees. At that time the package containing marijuana was handed over to the suspect, then the team that was already preparing around the location immediately moved quickly to arrest the suspect. "The perpetrator Nando then we took him to the Tanjabbar Police along with evidence of 1.5 kilograms of marijuana," he said.

The police chief also explained that in front of investigators the suspect admitted that the marijuana type narcotics belonged to him which he ordered from Medan, North Sumatra. The perpetrators were threatened with Article 114 Paragraph (2) and/or Article 111 Paragraph (2) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.