Police Raid Drug Production House In Citereup Bogor, Seize Millions Of PCC Pills

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - The police raided houses that were used as drug production sites (industrial houses/home industries) as well as confiscated millions of paracetamol, caffeine and carisprodol (PCC) pills in the Citeureup area, Bogor. "We went straight to the address given and then conducted a search at the house and the team found the 'home industry' (home industries) which was used as a place for producing narcotics (expected PCC types)," said Head of Sub-Directorate 3 of the Narcotics Directorate of Polda Metro Jaya, AKBP Malvino E Yusticia in a written statement, in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday, May 18.

The raid carried out by the Narcotics Directorate of the Polda Metro Jaya in Tajur Village, RT 002 RW 003, Tajur Village, Citeureup, Bogor took place on Wednesday 15 May. This case began with reports from residents regarding someone who would deliver PCC narcotics to a shophouse (ruko) on Jalan Raya Bekasi km.39, Cakung Barat, East Jakarta.

Then, the Sub-Directorate 3 team followed the car used by the courier, which was known to have been driven by a man with the initials MH (43) to send the PCC narcotics to an expedition service for distribution.

"Then the officers conducted a brief interrogation of MH and received information from the person concerned that the manufacture of the goods was carried out in a house, Tajur Village RT 002/RW 003, Tajur Village, Citeureup, Bogor," said Malvino. The team went straight to the address given and then searched the house.

Based on the results of the raid, the team found evidence of more than one million PCC pills.

"It was confiscated in 15 packs each containing 1,000 pills, a total of 15,000 items. Confiscated at 24 sack factories each containing 50 packs or 1,000 pills, a total of 1.2 million pills," said Malvino.

As for other evidence, three units of printing press for the manufacture of PCC narcotics, chemicals in the form of powders and liquids that are suspected to be precursors for the manufacture of PCC narcotics, hundreds of packaging of empty bottles (drug containers), and dozens of cardboard packages.

Currently, the perpetrator and the evidence have been brought to the Polda Metro Jaya for further action and a more intensive examination is carried out.