Police Raid Apartments In Batam, A Liquid Methamphetamine Production Site

Police raided an apartment where liquid methamphetamine was produced in Batam (ANTARA/Jessica)

The police raided 1 apartment unit in Batam, Riau Islands which was used as a drug production site (industrial house/home industry) in the form of liquid methamphetamine and arrested 3 perpetrators.

Director of the Narcotics Directorate of the Riau Islands Police, Kombes Dony Alexander, said that his party found 68 bottles with a size of 500 ml, containing liquid methamphetamine, with details of 10 bottles being brought to Palembang, 6 other bottles being produced, and the remaining 52 bottles being at the location.

The police received information regarding the existence of a drug production site from the local community.

"This is what we will explore the manufacturing process. Whether the person concerned is indeed self-taught, or taught, or has done anything other than this Riau Islands area," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, May 27.

"We will explore further, this is a big contribution from the community to us, by providing information to us. And we will continue this so that we can get maximum results to save the Indonesian people," continued Dony.

The Head of Public Relations of the Riau Islands Police, Kombes Zahwani Pandra Arsyad, said that the success of the Narcotics Directorate in this disclosure was a form of commitment in the Prevention and Eradication of Narcotics Abuse and Dark Circulation (P4GN).

"The success in arresting this activity has secured several suspects, one of the suspects AR (male), IS (male) FM (female) who was once a recidivist," said Pandra.

He confirmed the results of the lab examination with positive results with methamphetamine elements.