Fishermen In Mukomuko Arrested When Enjoying Drugs

The Narcotics Investigation Unit (Satresnarkoba) of the Mukomuko Resort Police (Polres) held a press release disclosing two cases of abuse of narcotics across provinces, Tuesday (23/4/2024) ANTARA/Ferri.

MUKOMUKO - The Narcotics Investigation Unit (Satresnarkoba) of the Mukomuko Resort Police (Polres), Bengkulu Province, revealed two cases of marijuana abuse in this area. "We uncovered two cases of narcotics abuse. There are two residents in this area who work as fishermen and workers who are named suspects," said Head of the Mukomuko Police Narcotics Investigation Unit, Iptu Suprapto in a press release in Mukomuko, Antara, Tuesday, April 23. He explained that in the disclosure of the narcotics abuse case, the first police managed to arrest one perpetrator with the initials MY (38), a resident of Pulau Baru Village, Ipuh District, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Evidence as much as a package of dried marijuana wrapped in black plastic asoy. Furthermore, he said, in the second case the police arrested one suspect with the initials RM (25), a resident of Sari Bulan Village, Air Dikit District, on Monday, April 15, 2024. The evidence that was secured was in the form of two packages of marijuana. The first package was wrapped in white paper and was covered with duct tape and the second package was wrapped in brown rice wrapping paper. In these two cases, two perpetrators were charged with Article 114 paragraph (1) in conjunction with the subsidiary Article 111 paragraph (1) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics Abuse with a criminal threat of four to 12 years in prison. Meanwhile, net weight of evidence of narcotics class 1 type of marijuana weighs 53.76 grams. He said that the two perpetrators of marijuana-type narcotics abuse who were arrested in different places in this area were a network of cross-provincial narcotics dealers.

His party is still continuing to develop and deepen narcotics abuse cases to reveal who was involved in this case.